The cook José Andrés, Princess of Asturias Award for Concord, has asked governments and institutions to put aside “the speeches that never go to anything” and launch “actions on the ground” to end inequalities in the world.
“When I was very young, it was announced that hunger was going to end, and we know that they were simply empty words,” said the chef in Oviedo, where on Friday he will collect from the king the award for his work at the head of the NGO World Central Kitchen (WCK) from which thousands of victims of food and social emergencies have benefited.
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José Andrés has wondered why in the great international forums where there is debate on how to end hunger in the world “a person who goes hungry is never invited” or why is it still “talking about helping emigrants” and this The collective has no “voice of its own”.
“The messages are given by those who have not suffered these vicissitudes. If we want to change the world, we have to start giving them the respect that these people deserve. People do not want our alms,” stressed the Asturian chef who has been living for almost three years. decades in the United States, where he has built a gastronomic empire.
Wolf protection and ranchers
Regarding the controversy surrounding the wolf, he has asked for protection for the canid, but he has also demanded that governments guarantee the farmers solutions so that their “herds are protected.”
“I am a man from Rodríguez de la Fuente and I do not want to be touched by the wolf, but I am also a man of my people and of the shepherds and I know what they are suffering,” he revealed in a meeting with political representatives in parliament. Asturian in Oviedo, where on Friday he will collect the award for his work at the head of World Central Kitchen.
The chef has pointed out that “if we do not want to touch the wolf” we must “pay for each sheep” that each canid kills at the same time that he added that if governments do not want to spend “millions” in compensation, they must seek solutions, such as ” invest in technology and make Asturias the center of that technology “.
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