The agency was forced to issue the bizarre warning after the council in Ghent City launched a campaign last Thursday encouraging people to recycle their Christmas trees to reduce waste.

Belgium's food agency has warned people not to eat their Christmas trees after the city of Ghent suggested reusing pine needles in recipes as a way to reduce waste. The country's Federal Food ...

Ghent had cited what it said were ancient Scandinavian ... agreed with their Belgian counterparts that commercially bought Christmas trees "are not considered food because they may have been ...