United Nations(UN) Serves World Leaders Food Scraps For Lunch

A bid to drive home a message about wasting food

Some of the most powerful people on the planet ate the food we throw away and leave to rot at supermarkets for their lunch on Sunday Sep 27,2015

About 30 World Leaders - including United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and French President Francois Hollande -- were served ''landfill salads''made out of vegetable scraps for a high-level working lunch at the United Nations' headquarters in New York. They were also given water drained from cans of chickpeas, burgers made from vegetables thrown away for being below quality standards, French fries produced using corn typically used as animal feed, and desserts consisting of coffee cherry pulp, cocoa bean shells and leftover nut skins.

The menu was created by award-winning chef Dan Barber and the former executive director of first lady Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign, Sam Kass

Note

Manufacturing, distributing and consuming food, and disposing of food uses energy,which mostly come from fossil fuels, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and by extension global warming, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Energy used in food production and by the agricultural industry contributes as much to climate change as transportation does