How do you fight obesity, food import dependence, global warming and food price inflation, while eating great Japanese food? Live in Japan!

Here's a public service announcement from the world's largest importer of food which ends with a "why can't consumers, producers and the food industry all get along - after all we're all Japanese?" message which ignores the reason we're in this mess at the moment. But the video nonetheless pushes the question - what's your ministry of agriculture doing to join the dots between hunger, obesity and the globalisation of food? [Via DD]

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Posted on 19 January, 2009 - 18:27

The Financial Times again distinguishes itself by being the only major newspaper to take the global food price rises at all seriously. On Monday, front page above the fold, an article on the UN's call for $500m in food aid to avoid famine. Yesterday, on rice rationing in the Philippines. Today, front page again, the announcement that the price of rice, a staple for over 2.5 billion people, rose 30% in a single day. ... read more »

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Posted on 28 March, 2008 - 21:51