World leaders accustomed to fine dining had a surprise on their plates on Sunday at the United Nations — trash. Chefs cooked up a lunch made entirely of food that would have ended up in garbage bins, hoping to highlight the extraordinary waste in modern diets and its role in worsening climate change. On the menu for the lunch at the UN headquarters was a vegetable burger made of pulp left over from juicing, which…
World leaders given ‘trash’ to eat at UN to highlight food wastage
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