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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The Benefits of Going Vegan and Vegetarian
Timothy Searchinger once said, "The single most important thing is to eat less beef", beef is the most inefficient product to harvest, on average about 1% of energy from beef is transferred to humans who eat it. Producing animals like, chicken, pig, and beef, emits more carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide into the atmosphere. The United Nations agree that going vegetarian is an essential step to maintaining a healthy level of greenhouses gases within out planet. PETA states that going vegan can significantly reduced a person's "ecological footprint" permitting people to "tread lightly on the planet and be compassionate to its inhabitants."