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 Producing Carbon Emissions
The food you eat can inadvertently harm our atmosphere. Due to things like live stock butchering, shipping, and farming. If you eat meat, it was probably shipped from far away after being processed and handled in factories. This can create a massive carbon footprint. We can slow this problem by eating less meat, specifically red meat. Cows are known to naturally produce methane, a gas, which harms our atmosphere, as well as the processing and shipping of beef.