World Food Day is one of the most celebrated calendar events of the United Nations (UN). This year it takes place on October 16, about five months away.
But the UN, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the UN Foundation are already hopping on it: while they usually appeal to our sense of global humanity, this time it is our children.
Organizers are approaching this year’s event by hiring animated movie star Peter Rabbit to try to get teenagers to eat more fruits and vegetables and waste less food. Peter starred in a new Sony movie called Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway, and on World Food Day, he’s calling kids to be food heroes.
What do food heroes do?
In a press release from its headquarters in Rome, the FAO says that during the pandemic we benefited from the efforts of those who produced, planted, harvested, fished or transported food. These are people who are celebrated as “food heroes”.
The UN says children can join the ranks of food heroes by eating plenty of high-fiber, local and seasonal fruits and vegetables, reducing food waste, and planting a garden, however small.
The FAO calls Peter’s voice a great way to speak to children and their parents about the importance of healthy eating, buying local products, and other sustainable practices that are important to their health and the health of our planet.
Good for the FAO. Everything that reaches young audiences and their parents is essential.
FAO figures show that overweight and obesity among children are increasing worldwide. She blames several factors for the phenomenon, but points in particular to the global shift in diet and the lack of exercise.
Young people eat higher-energy foods that are high in fat and sugar, but low in vitamins, minerals and other healthy micronutrients, it is said.
And in many cases they are glued to a screen.
This is where an active herbivore like Peter Rabbit comes into play. It is fast, agile and a fruit and vegetable figurehead.
I can imagine that the meat sector will roll its eyeballs – or worse – at this campaign if it becomes too militant against meat consumption. It doesn’t specifically suggest that children eat less meat, but I can imagine how some activists could take advantage of this. More of one thing means less of something else.
But the fruit and vegetable sector does not have to encounter other raw materials. The pandemic tarnished its own image as it tried to find safe and affordable housing for international workers. But the goods it continues to produce are beyond reproach.
The fruit and vegetable sector refreshes the whole country and beyond. That is especially true this year when so many people were devastated by the pandemic and lost hope. Around the same time as COVID-19 numbers were falling, asparagus shoots began to show up.
A recent story published in the U.S. farm publication Successive Farming showed that a sample of local food sectors led the fruit and vegetable sector in most of its leading trends, including immune system boosters, adventurous ingredients, greater product variety, and breakfast salads.
And we know that the term fresh food has an ever-evolving and modern meaning in Ontario thanks to the booming high-tech greenhouse industry that is producing more and more fresh goods with ever greater vigor.
Fruit and vegetables overcome many cultural barriers. Diversity is an undeniable plus for breeders who can respond to cultural changes in diet.
So make sure that fruit and vegetable champ Peter Rabbit plays a big role this summer and fall ahead of World Food Day and hopefully has a healthier future for kids everywhere.
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