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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Ending Hunger Around the Planet
Many people are hungry in the world right now and/or are getting vastly different amounts of food. Some people are not getting enough food and others are obese. This is mainly due to extreme weather that is causing difficulties in gathering that food.
There are many things we can do to help solve this issue. The first is to make food healthier and more affordable/easily accessible. We must put more effort into researching solutions to make more food at a time in a way that is unceasing. We must also stop food from being wasted and lost. Studying the behaviors of people with food will also help; stress eating is not good. Some food sources need have less risk. Improvements need to be made for these food sources to have less risk. Although all people have freedom and rights (in America, at least), that is not always the case. Some are given less or more food based on their gender, sexuality, and age. All people should need to have food equally to be healthy. Sometimes, there simply isn’t enough food to go around. This is why we must protect these sources of food. With more protection, there will be more food. More money needs to be spent to help get more food, or at least go toward research for food.
Ending hunger will not be an easy task. Many people are hesitant on spending money because of the speed of progress and sourcing the food.
Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02331-x