UN concerned about China’s food safety activists
BEIJING (AP) – China has made “remarkable progress” in growing sufficient food to feed its people but its official efforts to silence people who alert the public to food safety problems are worrisome, a U.N. official said Thursday. China shifted from a food aid recipient to a international food donor in 2005, a sign of its “significant success” in coordinating and helping small-scale farmers boost productivity, said Olivier De Schutter, the U.N. Human Rights Council’s independent expert on the right to…
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