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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No More Food Waste
If we stop wasting so much food it will help the environment tremendously. Did you know that average human eats 4.7 pounds of food a day? But we waste about 44-54 days’ worth of food in a year. Each thing we buy contributes to more fossil fuels being used, more CO2 being released into the air, and more land being used to manufacture, cook, and store our food. Each household produces about 8 tons of greenhouse gases just in the food category. There are about 4.1 billion households in the world. If you don’t buy as much food, and eat everything you cook, it will reduce the amount of greenhouse gases, and fossil fuels being released into the air.
I toataly agree. I never thought about how each meal I eat produces greenhouse gasses which contribute to climate change. If each person only makes or buys as much as they actually need or will eat, that would help make less greenhouse gasses and co2.
I agree! Too much food is wasted, it is unfortunate that food is being wasted while there are starving people.
I feel like we do waste too much food a day even myself. Like if we actually gave the food that we are not eating to homeless people, a charity, or something like that, maybe we can just stop making so much of food knowing we are not going to eat it and start making the right amount.