A new report submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council on the “Right to Food” took aim at the entire basis on which food is produced and distributed on a global scale...De Schutter, the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food...concluded that the world’s entire food system should be rebuilt, starting with the promotion of local, sustainable farming...The world’s food system is controlled by a handful of giant corporations...[This] method [is] environmentally unsustainable given its overreliance on chemical fertilizers, pesticides and fossil fuels...[and] inefficient at actually feeding people. The World Food Programme estimates that there are 842 million hungry people worldwide... He...[warned,] “the current food systems are efficient only from the point of view of maximizing agribusiness profits,” and added that “[a]t the local, national and international levels, the policy environment must urgently accommodate alternative, democratically-mandated visions.” [refers to ConAgra, Cargill, PepsiCo, Monsanto, Dow Chemical]