Food

Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is ingested by an organism and assimilated by the organism's cells to provide energy, maintain life, or stimulate growth.

Historically, people secured food through two methods: hunting and gathering and agriculture. Today, the majority of the food energy required by the ever increasing population of the world is supplied by the food industry.

Food safety and food security are monitored by agencies like the International Association for Food Protection, World Resources Institute, World Food Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization, and International Food Information Council. They address issues such as sustainability, biological diversity, climate change, nutritional economics, population growth, water supply, and access to food.

The right to food is a human right derived from the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), recognizing the "right to an adequate standard of living, including adequate food," as well as the "fundamental right to be free from hunger."

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King plays recorder made from a carrot

AOL 04 Apr 2025
April Koyejo-Audiger, a soprano who has performed with the Royal Opera, said King Charles joked to her in passing that “he hopes they eat the carrots because he wouldn’t want any food to go to waste... He is so genuine....
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Kitchen App, Kike AI Targets 1m Jobs in Gas, Food Industry

This Day 04 Apr 2025
Kike Technologies has introduced “Kike AI,” a pioneering kitchen application aimed at transforming Nigeria’s food and gas industries, with the ambitious objective of creating 1,000,000 jobs  throughout  the  country ... It also addresses food safety concerns by integrating with hygiene practices and regulatory compliance....
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How to Make Everything You Buy Last Longer

The Tribune San Luis Obispo 04 Apr 2025
Maximum food, minimum waste. Our great-great grandparents preserved their food by salt-curing, canning, fermentation and sand burials (Weird fact ... Here are some other ways to step up your food storage game ... If you have enough outside space — and/or a garden hungry for nutrients — go the DIY route and compost food waste yourself....
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Is Isle Royale's main ferry facing staffing issues due to federal cuts? Officials say no

Detroit Free Press 04 Apr 2025
Moose cross river in Michigan's remote Isle Royale. A moose and her calf swim to Glenns Island at Isle Royale National Park in Michigan on Sunday, August 18 ... It delivers fuel to power generators, brings in food supplies for staff and lodge guests, hauls materials for maintenance projects, and carries out waste, Fink said in the report ... 1 to April 15....
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New program aims to help area restaurants reduce food waste

Park Record 03 Apr 2025
The Park City Chamber & Visitors Bureau and the Park City Community Foundation have partnered to launch the Zero Food Waste Restaurant Cohort, a pilot program designed to make it easy for area restaurants to reduce waste and save resources, according to the organizations....
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11 items you can and can't recycle as new rules to be introduced

AOL 03 Apr 2025
The government's Simpler Recycling scheme is already in effect for businesses, and encourages them to separate and recycle waste into glass, metal, plastic, paper and food waste - with food waste bins mandatory ... Food and garden waste....
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WHO unveils bold commitments at Nutrition for Growth Summit

World Health Organization 03 Apr 2025
WHO is answering the N4G call for bold action with concrete, time-bound commitments that will drive measurable impact and accelerate progress," said Dr Luz María De Regil, Director of the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety at WHO ... WHO will also address ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption with updated definitions and recommendations....
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Wonky fruit and leftovers: Spain enforces new rules for supermarkets and restaurants

Spanish News Today 03 Apr 2025
Spain’s Law on the Prevention of Food Loss and Waste was approved way back in 2021 but after a series of delays and push-backs, it’s finally set to be enforced from Thursday April 3 ... have a food waste prevention plan, won’t come into effect until April next year....
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Winners announced for the 12th Edition of the Malta Waste Reduction Awards

The Malta Independent 03 Apr 2025
This year's edition focused on food waste and its environmental impact, encouraging participants to present actions that promote reducing, reusing, and recycling waste to raise awareness on these crucial issues ... WasteServ CEO Richard Bilocca emphasised the importance of such events in promoting waste prevention and sustainability....
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Seattle Public Utilities Brings People Together for a Cleaner Seattle This Spring

Scrap Monster 03 Apr 2025
... landscapes that use water wisely          Reducing food waste and composting food scraps and organics          Recycling and reusing items to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions ....
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Filipino youth win big at Climate Hack 2024

Manila Bulletin 03 Apr 2025
SustainIQ serves as an IoT-enabled food waste segregation system to lessen contamination and methane emissions, which would assist material recovery facilities in providing an affordable, scalable, and data-driven system for managing food refuse....
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Food safety raid uncovers housefly infestation at Kondapur production unit

The Siasat Daily 03 Apr 2025
Multiple food safety and hygiene violations found. During the inspection on Wednesday, April 2, officials discovered that the kitchen and grinding area had patchy flooring, and the grinding area was wet with food waste littered around ... Food safety dept raids restaurants in Hyderabad’s Kompally ... Food safety raids across Hyderabad continue....
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Miss Manners: Not interested in eating any food made in someone’s kitchen.

Michigan Live 03 Apr 2025
I stopped eating potluck food at work years ago when I found cat hair in a piece of cake ... I was always careful with food before that, but that was the last straw ... You also do not want to waste food, nor do you want to be dishonest -- by, for example, saying that you already ate....

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