Please don’t take away our Ben & Jerry’s! According to an investigator with the United Nations, an unhealthy diet is more of a threat to global health than tobacco. Olivier de Schutter, special rapporteur on right to food, told the World Health Organization’s annual summit that governments should tax harmful food products and launch a global pact to tackle obesity. “Just as the world came together to regulate the risks of tobacco, a bold framework convention on adequate diets must now be agreed,” he said.
