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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I think food prices for organic foods should be more cheaper compared to the cheap processed foods that increase gases.
But you also pay for the time and work put into growing organic foods. People are working hard to grow those produce but processed foods are able to be sold for cheaper because of how little it costs to grow it. Sure, organic foods are expensive but you cannot always get what is preferred. If anything I think we should rather boycott processed foods so that they'll change their ways for the environment and stop using methods that increased the greenhouse gases produced or at least find a way to lower the gases that come out of the process.
It depends on your role in this situation. The people who can't afford organic foods have to support big corporations. These corporation cause huge effect on the environment. Also these foods usually are not the best for your body,
For the farmers that grow and sell organic foods, it can impact them greatly if they have to lower their costs. Most of the time farming is their only job and lowering their prices make them lose a lot of money and a lot of people can’t afford losing any right now.