What did you learn about dietary choices from using the footprint calculator? Now imagine that you could translate what you learned into an effective societal policy on food- what would it be? And how would this policy effect the need to alleviate world hunger?
925 million people on earth do not have enough to eat according to the FAO [Food and Agricultural Organization]. That's almost 1 in 7 inhabitants of our planet!
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Pesticides are poisoning our food
Food, being the main ingredient needed in a human’s life in order to survive is currently being poisoned by pesticides. This limits the number of edible foods for humans. Pesticides are used to prevent animals from eating farmer’s crops, however they can be just as toxic towards humans. As it was stated in an article, pesticides have been found to cause human cancer.
Article:https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.8369032