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ARE WE FARMING HUNGRY? | EnvironMental Podcast - Food & Agriculture EnvironMental with Dandelion
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This week on the EnvironMental Podcast, we start talking about food and agriculture.
You can tell by the tone of the episode that we’re a little overwhelmed by how big this topic is and how many directions it CAN go in!
Here’s the good news: there’s a lot of room for improvement.
But the reality we’re living is a little dire. Here are some facts that we want to dive deeper into this month:
Food accounts for over a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions
Hispanic and African American families are twice as likely to experience food insecurity during the pandemic
Food has been losing nutritional value since the 50s
And we are wasting 30+% of all the food we grow on a regular basis.
Throughout the next months, we also want to talk about the intentional design behind food deserts, get a better understanding of the best ways to balance food growth and consumption (like, how is there so much waste AND so many hungry people?!), and talk about the meat production.
This is a huge, huge topic partially because it’s so important for our survival but also because the flaws of the food industry have compounded over time. As big ag has continued to grow, these flaws have become clearer and clearer. Profits over people and planet can’t be the answer on a huge scale anymore!
We’re excited to spend this month learning about how broken the system is, and what steps we can take to help improve it!
References:
https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
https://www.oecd.org/agriculture/topics/agriculture-and-the-environment/
https://civileats.com/2019/08/20/study-finds-farm-level-food-waste-is-much-worse-than-we-thought/
https://moveforhunger.org/the-environmental-impact-of-food-waste
https://changeforchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Food-Security-vs-Food-Sovereignty.pdf
https://bioneers.org/hidden-hunger-does-food-lack-essential-nutrients-zmbz2105/
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/what-are-food-deserts
This week on the EnvironMental Podcast, we start talking about food and agriculture.
You can tell by the tone of the episode that we’re a little overwhelmed by how big this topic is and how many directions it CAN go in!
Here’s the good news: there’s a lot of room for improvement.
But the reality we’re living is a little dire. Here are some facts that we want to dive deeper into this month:
Food accounts for over a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions
Hispanic and African American families are twice as likely to experience food insecurity during the pandemic
Food has been losing nutritional value since the 50s
And we are wasting 30+% of all the food we grow on a regular basis.
Throughout the next months, we also want to talk about the intentional design behind food deserts, get a better understanding of the best ways to balance food growth and consumption (like, how is there so much waste AND so many hungry people?!), and talk about the meat production.
This is a huge, huge topic partially because it’s so important for our survival but also because the flaws of the food industry have compounded over time. As big ag has continued to grow, these flaws have become clearer and clearer. Profits over people and planet can’t be the answer on a huge scale anymore!
We’re excited to spend this month learning about how broken the system is, and what steps we can take to help improve it!
References:
https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
https://www.oecd.org/agriculture/topics/agriculture-and-the-environment/
https://civileats.com/2019/08/20/study-finds-farm-level-food-waste-is-much-worse-than-we-thought/
https://moveforhunger.org/the-environmental-impact-of-food-waste
https://changeforchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Food-Security-vs-Food-Sovereignty.pdf
https://bioneers.org/hidden-hunger-does-food-lack-essential-nutrients-zmbz2105/
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/what-are-food-deserts
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