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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Vegetarians
If we become vegetarians or try to reduce on the amount of meat we eat this will strongly impact the environment. When we don’t eat meat animals’ lives are saved, and we don’t need space for all of the meat producing factories. It will reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses by 20%. Also 65% of the total amount of nitrous oxide produced by humans comes from livestock (mainly from the manure), it is also 300 times more damaging than carbon dioxide. Methane has 25 times the impact on global warming than carbon dioxide, and a cow can produce 500 liters a day. Cows and sheep alone, are responsible for 37% of the total amount of methane produced by human activity. Carbon dioxides are released into the air when a forest is cleared for the grazing and growing of animals. Fossil fuels are also used to transport animals’ different places.