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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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Food and Hunger

tiquBOD

Food and Hunger is a big issue in today's society. There’s a lot of food that is wasted and thrown away. Nearly 40% of food in America is wasted. That equates to 130 billion meals. Some ways we can solve this problem is to have a more sustainable diet and put food waste to use. Food needs to be grown, processed, and transported. Each one of the steps will create greenhouse gasses that trap the heat and contribute to climate change. Climate change helps worsen global warming because of the side effects which could be heavier rainstorms and droughts. Droughts can decrease the quality of the produce and because there isn’t much produce it can lead to higher food prices. Everybody has different financial situations causing others to not be able to afford these foods causing them to be hungry. As well as, how homeless people don’t have food and have to live on whatever they have. By helping the environment and homeless people you could just give them your leftovers so they wouldn’t have to starve but you also wouldn’t be wasting your food. An example would be cows. Cows contribute to global warming because of all the methane from all the food they eat then they let out a gas. To learn more about how cows affect the environment click here: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/cow-b … hange-that. Methane is a chemical compound that has the warming power of carbon dioxide. Methane has already affected  25% of today's global warming by our actions. By learning more about Methane you can go here: https://www.bridgerphotonics.com/blog/h … nvironment. In conclusion, we should be more aware of our surroundings and actions to try to help with food and hunger in our society.

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