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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Cutting Meat from Our Diets
If people would cut the amount of meat that is consumed down, it would cut everyone's carbon footprint significantly. This is mainly from the industrialized farms that are used to turn the animals into products, and the fact that Cows on farms produce large amounts of methane as well. I think a way that we can do this is by having an intergovernmental protocol to regulate meat, it's consumption, and where it comes from.