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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Hunger and Waste
In the U.S alone 44.2 million people live in food insecure houses. This means that 44.2 million people either don't get enough food on a daily basis, they don't get any, or they don't get nutrient rich food. Americans waste 80 million tons of food per year which is 149 billion meals, if you divide that by the amount of hungry people each person could have access to 1862 meals. If we were able to save and provide even half of that to people it could help so much. We need to make more nutritious food options available to people around the world. If you can try to donate healthy options to food pantries or local soup kitchens.