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Food & Hunger

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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Not Eating Beef and the Impact of Cows on our Carbon Footprint

DhbeBOD

Climate change is a huge and growing problem that we are all responsible for fixing, and one of the main things we all contribute to global warming is the food we eat, and specifically meat. Cars and other transportation obviously contribute a lot to climate change, as well as big factories, but that stuff is a lot more out of our control.  The food we eat is very much in our control, but the problem is people simply don't want to stop eating meat.  For most people, Climate change isn't relevant enough for them to give up their favorite food, but they don't know how big of a problem this is. My solution is for people to just stop eating beef and continue to enjoy all other meats. I know beef is most people's favorite meat, but at least you could still eat other meats and this is better than giving up all meat.  The reason this would still help is that Cows are the biggest contributors to climate change out of all other animals.  One reason for this is Methane.  Methane is one of the most powerful greenhouse gasses, and according to research done by  Frank Mitloehner at UC Davis, one cow produces 220 pounds of methane per year, which is tons higher than any other animal.  More research can be done here: https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/makin … ustainable. Most people attribute climate change with Carbon Dioxide because there is a lot more of it in our atmosphere, but Methane is more than 25 times as potent as carbon dioxide at trapping heat in our atmosphere. More research about methane by United States Environmental Protection Agency can be found here: https://www.epa.gov/gmi/importance-meth … activities. In conclusion, it is hard to give up all meat, but a great way to help with our heating climate while still eating meat is just to give up beef. Cows are the biggest contributor to climate change of any other animal, so just giving up beef would make a huge impact.

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