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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Wasting Food
People all around the world cook a meal everyday and everyday people have food leftover from their meals. About 1.3 billion tons of food is lost or wasted. That food amounts to about 160 Billion U.S. dollars of waste and about 1 trillion dollars worldwide. It is said that about 40% of food is wasted in the United States every year. If we were to reduce the amount of food waste from 40% to 25% then we would be able to feed 25 million Americans alone.
I agree, especially because you can see thousands of children daily having trouble finding a decent meal and clean water while people in first world countries throw tons of food away.