Can food education legislation safeguard safety on the dining table?
Food safety problems keep emerging, and one of the fundamental solutions is to give priority to enacting a "Taiwan Food Education Basic Law"!
What is the Food Education Basic Law? How far has the legislative process in Taiwan, China progressed so far?
In 2014, on World Health Day, the Yilan County Government introduced the "Yilan County Dietary Health Right Self-Governance Ordinance" (draft), taking the lead in advocating the idea that "eating safely is a basic right of the people" and that the right to health is a basic human right. After the draft is passed, schools may not provide food that endangers health, and may not use containers that endanger health to hold hot food and beverages, and the public can even receive a reward for reporting food safety violations.
Take charge of your own food safety!!! From the "Yilan County Dietary Health Right Self-Governance Ordinance", what kind of expectations and actions can we have toward each local government?
An alliance jointly formed by several civic groups in the south that care about the public's right to dietary health, the "Southern Food Education Working Group", will hold a series of civic action events this year to advocate that each local government pay attention to the public's right to dietary health. The first event features the driving force behind the "Taiwan Food Education Basic Law": Lai Xiaofen, Secretary-General of the Homemakers United Foundation Environmental Protection Foundation, coming south to share, and interested friends are welcome to sign up!
Time: 2015/4/13 (Mon) 1:30-3:30 pm
Location: Homemakers United Foundation Environmental Protection Foundation Southern Office (9F-1, No. 198 Bo'ai 2nd Road, Zuoying District, Kaohsiung, exit 3 of Aozihdi Station on the Kaohsiung MRT Red Line)
Host: Wang Nanqi / Convener of the Kaohsiung Environmental Protection Group, Homemakers United Foundation Environmental Protection Foundation
Speaker: Lai Xiaofen / Secretary-General, Homemakers United Foundation Environmental Protection Foundation
Lecture content:
1. The history of the development and promotion of food education legislation in Taiwan, China
2. Sharing of successful food education cases
3. What can we in southern Taiwan, China do together?
Contact phone: 07-5507360
Free admission, register online http://goo.gl/forms/EdY8wU4hHd
Organizer: Southern Food Education Working Group
Co-organizers: Community College National Promotion Association Southern Office, Homemakers United Foundation Southern Office, Kaohsiung First Community College, Kaohsiung Qimei Community College, Tainan Beimen Community College, Tainan Xinhua Community College, Citizens of the Earth Foundation, Green Party Kaohsiung Branch