The footprint calculator showed me that maintaining a healthy diet is very important because compared to some countries, we eat twice as much, but if we eat smart the gap can be narrower. This leads to my idea of fixing, or decreasing, world hunger- if you take just what you need on your plate, no excess, there would be more food for the 925 million people who have minimal food on theirs.

I agree with Ken because for me as a person I eat a lot, and most of my meals are either meat or beef or chicken. Whenever I eat I always have seconds or maybe even thirds so that's why i feel I should go on a vegetarian diet so I can cut down my carbon footprint. I know there is way more kids on this earth that are staving which I can help out by cutting down down on excess plates.

I also agree with Ken because as Americans we are accustomed to consuming excess amounts that most of the time aren't finished and go to waste. The perfect example of this would be seen in buffets where people just eat until they're full and waste the rest. However if we took what was need to satisfy our hunger less food would be consumed allowing it to allocated to different places on the cusps of starvation.

I agree and I think that your idea of eating better, more filling foods is great because those are usually easier to make as well.

I agree with this statement, because I tend to leave food on my plate and it ends up going to waste.  It would help us as people to cut down on food waste.

I agree that eating only what we need to is an effective way to not waste food. Another thing that would help the global hunger problem is growing your own food. If you have the opportunity to do so, growing your own food is a great way to not waste or eat other food that starving people around the world could be eating. Even if you do manage to waste the food that you grow, it can be composted and used to make more food.

I think that what you are arguing is completely true, as Americans completely take for granted the amount of food that we consume. The word "excess" can be applied to almost all aspects of American eating habits, whether it is amount of sugars, carbohydrates, or waste. We completely contradict sustainability with our eating habits, since our carbon footprints negatively reflect them. According to Health.gov, "More than half of the population is meeting or exceeding total grain and total protein foods recommendations, but, as discussed later in the chapter, are not meeting the recommendations for the subgroups within each of these food groups." These results are shocking. https://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/20 … ed-states/