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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organic vs. inorganic
The questions that were asked most thoroughly and frequently in the food section of the carbon footprint calculator were question that had to do with the buying and consuming of organic foods versus inorganic foods. When I got to this section I was a little confused as to why these questions were on a website used to calculate CO2 emissions. A lot of families have started to buy organic foods more and more because people here that it is better for you than inorganic. Reading this article, http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ … story.html , I found out that its harder to grow the organic food that everyone wants and is not actually that much healthier than inorganic. Reading this article I also found, though, that people should continue to or start to buy and eat more organic foods because they don't have pesticides and other chemicals sprayed on them. When the food that is sprayed with these chemicals get rained on, the chemicals run into nearby lakes and streams making drinking water undrinkable and bad for your health.