`Human pet food`: inquiry opened into São Paulo plan to fight hunger
(The Guardian Brazil)

Prosecutors in Brazil´s biggest city demand more information about nutritional content of mysterious flour-like substance intended to feed poorer citizenA storm is raging in Brazil´s biggest city over a controversial plan to feed poorer citizens and schoolchildren with a flour made out of food close to its sell-by date that critics have described as `human pet food`.João Doria, the populist, conservative mayor of São Paulo, and its Catholic cardinal, Dom Odilo Scherer, have said that the product, called farinata (farinha is flour in Portuguese), will help alleviate hunger at no cost to the city´s government. Related: `People are getting poorer`: hunger and handouts as Brazil crisis deepens Continue reading...