Do you consider healthy, socially and environmentally sustainable the food you eat? More than half of the population are considered overweighted, about 10 million people are obese and the country is world champion in the use of pesticides Our current food system causes diseases, disrespects biodiversity and cultural habits and generates inequality. Brazilian's eating habits are under attack by poisons of all sorts.
We consume an average of more than five liters of pesticides per year, per person and eat highly processed food, large amounts of salt, sugar, fat and several chemical substances. A poor diet can cause serius problems such as malnutrition, obesity, diabetes hypertension and some types of cancers Our agricultural model, based on large monocultures, with intensive use of pesticides, GMOs and antibiotics is a threat to society. Our Constitution says that food is a right that must be guaranteed but what kind of feeding do we want?
Poor nutrition associated with lack of exercises, Is sickening our society. This is affecting our children in a worrying way 7% of our children are obese and data shows that the nutritional status in early childhood reflects in adulthood. Obese children are potential obese adults Although Brazil has left the Hunger Map hunger rates among indigenous people and 'quilombolas' are still high and are unacceptable.
Eating is also an political act The global food production Is extremely exclusionary controlled by few transnational companies 75% of the global grain market Is controlled nowadays by only four companies Inesc is part of the National Council of Food Security and Nutrition and in that Council supports the sovereignty and food security and the human right to have adequate food also advocates that people have the right to choose what they want to eat advocates the consumption of adequate and healthy food produced by socially and environmentally sustainable systems bringing closer the production to consumption and that respect cultures and food traditions free of pesticides, GMOs and monocultures Inesc believes in family farming and agroecology. We want real food in rural and urban areas.
