Food Politics

So Who Wants to Oversee the Complete Collapse of the World’s Food Systems?

Food-wise, it’s pretty bleak out there: A massive crop shortage is poised to doom us all at any moment, there’s the whole Taco Bell fiasco, and scientists have thrown in the towel on real food and resorted to lab-grown “meat.” And yet, there are actually people who want to be the new director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization, the United Nations agency that’s committed to fighting world hunger. In fact, the list of the final candidates was released today. At least the person chosen will get to live in Rome, so we guess it’s not all bad. (Unless you’re the candidate who already lives in Brazil, in which case: downgrade.) [FAO]

So Who Wants to Oversee the Complete Collapse of the World’s Food Systems?