Mumbaikars to walk for 'toxicity-free, good food'
Over 10,000 Mumbaikars , including cancer patients and farmers, will march for healthy and ' toxicity-free ' good foodstuff grown naturally without using deadly chemicals or pesticides, an organiser said here on Friday. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is expected to lead the Help Our Society Health (HOSH) Walk with celebrities on Sunday morning. The event is organised by AmbaGopal Foundation in collaboration with Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital and University Of Mumbai. According to the AmbaGopal Foundation founder-trustee Harish Shetty, the HOSH Walk is the first-ever initiative of its kind in Mumbai, intended to highlight how people suffer in different ways by unknowingly consuming foods that are laced with dangerous chemicals, besides air and water pollution compounding problems. "We have also launched a public campaign demanding a complete ban on the use of all chemical fertilisers or pesticides in agriculture, and to adopt only organic