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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How to better reduce your footprint from food?
I noticed that my carbon footprint from food made up a good portion of my total, and I was thinking on how to reduce that. Eating more locally grown foods rather than foods from supermarkets is one way, as there will be no need for the food to be shipped from wherever it was grown to the grocery store. Also, eating less meat is another way. I think some people eat a lot more meat than they really need, and just do it out of habit. By eating meat, you need to raise an animal, which needs to be fed all the way up to adulthood, and then the meat needs to be shipped from the farm all the way to the grocery store. I think that by eating less meat there could be a real difference in the carbon footprint, and I think that for a lot of people it wouldn’t be that much of a sacrifice.