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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Don't Waste Food!
Close to a third of the world's food is wasted (The World Counts), and about ten percent of the global population is going hungry(Action Against Hunger). After finishing meals, we throw away the extra food that we do not eat, we keep buying food even when we have some in storage, and we throw away food just because we don’t like it. All that wasted food could be put to much better use at a charity or homeless shelter. We are overeating and thoughtlessly discarding food while people around the world are starving. That isn’t the only problem with wasting so much food either, tons of carbon dioxide is emitted in order to grow and process food. To help with this we can eat organic food, compost food waste, and only grow and buy the food that we need.
Sources:The World Counts. www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/hunger-and-obesity/food-waste-statistics.
Action Against Hunger. “World Hunger Facts and Statistics | Action Against Hunger.” Action Against Hunger, 5 Oct. 2023, www.actionagainsthunger.org/the-hunger-crisis/world-hunger-facts.