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UN expert says globalization of Western lifestyle spawns ‘global public health disaster’
BNO News ^ | March 8, 2012

Posted on 03/08/2012 11:37:24 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY

NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) -- A United Nations independent expert on Tuesday said an international public health disaster persists as undernourishment and overweight problems have spawned from the globalization of western lifestyles.

UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food Olivier De Schutter bluntly stated that "out food systems create sick people," noting that over a billion people are currently suffering from undernourishment while another billion remain overweight or obese.

In his latest report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, De Schutter underlined that the right to food "means not only access to an adequate quantity of food, but also the ability to have a balanced and nutritious diet."

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1 posted on 03/08/2012 11:37:32 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“UN” and “expert” in the same sentence. That ain’t working.


2 posted on 03/08/2012 11:43:28 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It's time for the DemocRAT voter base to start paying their "fair share" of taxes.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I would rather deal with Obesity as a world issue than Famine....

Obviously the UN is bonkers


3 posted on 03/08/2012 11:44:57 AM PST by GraceG
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To: GraceG

You nailed it.


4 posted on 03/08/2012 11:46:35 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It's time for the DemocRAT voter base to start paying their "fair share" of taxes.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Is this the lunchbox inspector Nazi in North Carolina pushing foods that equal federal dollars? Blame the West gone amuck strategy. I think they need to come up with a new line.


5 posted on 03/08/2012 11:47:32 AM PST by momincombatboots (Back to West by G-d Virginia.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So the problem of undernourishment will be solved by reducing the number of those who are obese?


6 posted on 03/08/2012 11:49:57 AM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

...the same thinking goes along with the idea that tearing down the rich will improve the lot of the poor.

In the end the UN will have us ALL poor - and undernourished...


7 posted on 03/08/2012 11:52:15 AM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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UN expert says globalization of Western lifestyle spawns ‘global public health disaster’

And there you have it.........this was ultimately what the whole "Global Warming" scam was about, attacking Western values....now the veil has been lifted.

8 posted on 03/08/2012 11:53:30 AM PST by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
noting that over a billion people are currently suffering from undernourishment while another billion remain overweight or obese.

So, on average, we're doing just fine!

/sarc

9 posted on 03/08/2012 11:55:31 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: Free ThinkerNY
And be sure to feed all those people without and genetically modified crops or fertilizer.... or fuel. Heck, lets just tax all the rich fat people and make them equally poor and take their farmland through Project 21.
10 posted on 03/08/2012 12:01:18 PM PST by KarlInOhio (You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
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“Tax the rich, feed the poor. Till there are no rich no more....”


11 posted on 03/08/2012 12:04:00 PM PST by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I had this conversation years ago with a globalist. What happens when the whole world is “elevated” to our standard of living and consumption without Western morals and values (Christianity)? Who is going to provide for that expectation and is it possible to sustain through natural law? The answer was the elite would erase Western morals and values but only expand western consumption.

Population control (reproduction cultural behaviors) is a natural process unless mankind “overcomes” natural law for profit. Babylon was not all that great according to God.


12 posted on 03/08/2012 12:06:42 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: GraceG

naaaahhhhhh, The OIC just has to learn that their nations need to develop their economies to rid their selves of poverty and illiteracy, most of which is born from their so called religion.

Why do you think the muslim in the white house is attacking America? He wants to end western man’s arrogance.

After all, it’s unfair, there is no justice in western man having all the inventions and achievements


13 posted on 03/08/2012 12:07:10 PM PST by himno hero (Obamas theme...Death to America...The crusaders will pay!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
What do you want to bet that all those UN swells railing against the "Western lifestyle" live a "Western lifestyle" themselves?
14 posted on 03/08/2012 12:47:29 PM PST by Joe the Pimpernel (Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to behead anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This bigger health disaster is all of the turd world diseases/problems that have been conquered during the last half of the 20th century that are making a bigger and bigger comeback in America as well as other Western nations such as TB, leprosy, bed bugs, HIV, Chagas’ Disease, polio, whooping cough, trichomoniasis, et al.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/AsthmaNews/asthma-worm-world-diseases-entering-us/story?id=10634879
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125090339313750961.html

Of course you have the mind diseases like the third world scourge of collectivism that is becoming more popular, too, that is allowing the turd world diseases to enter in the first place.


15 posted on 03/08/2012 1:25:21 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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