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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Limit your meat consumption
Through my observations, I learned that meat and beef take a lot of work to make and produce. Animals need to be fed, and what they eat must be taken care of, and animals must drink water and be given sufficient nutrients. All of this work it done just to produce meat in the grocery store. The decomposing and unused pieces of the animal contribute to the amount carbon in the air. According to the Guardian, studies show that red meat uses 28 times more land and 11 times more water for pork or chicken. This makes a large impact on the environment and the carbon footprint of the people who eat the meat that has been made. The Guardian also states that "Prof Mark Sutton, at the UK’s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, said: “Governments should consider these messages carefully if they want to improve overall production efficiency and reduce the environmental impacts. But the message for the consumer is even stronger. Avoiding excessive meat consumption, especially beef, is good for the environment.”" The more meat eaten, the bigger impact and amount of carbon is released into the environment. In conclusion, eating less meat will help to reduce our carbon footprint and better supply more people on earth to have food because there would be more land to grow cheaper products in bigger quantities.
I have done some research about meat and how it adds a lot of carbon to the air, and how it can be bad in general. Some ways to limit your meat consumption are by eliminating all red meats, don't eat processed meats, and base your meals around vegetables and not meat.
This is a great point, and I totally agree that it is completely reasonable to reduce red meat consumption by avoiding beef, by doing this you will be helping the environment very easily. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6088533/ they talk about reducing meat consumption and how it could help the environment so much. What are your views on cutting out red meat in general?





