UN serves lunch made from food waste to 30 world leaders
Source: The Times of India, Date: , 2015
In a lesson on practicing what
they preach, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon served lunch made from food waste
- like "Landfill Salad" - to about 30 world leaders here for the
global summit on sustainable development agenda. The vegetarian menu on Sunday
was designed to dramatise the fact that more than a third of all produced is
wasted even as the UN launches an ambitious agenda to end hunger and protect
the environment. "Our lunch was produced from food that would otherwise
end up in landfills, emitting methane, a potent greenhouse gas," Ban told
reporters. French President Francois Hollande was among the guests, but Prime
Minister Narendra Modi, who was away in California, was not there. "Food
production and agriculture contribute as much to climate change as
transportation," Ban said.