Food Print
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Social Studies
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6th - 8th Grade
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Dallas Dudzic
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Food Print
Animal Agriculture
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What is a Foodprint?
A foodprint measures the environmental impacts associated with the growing, producing, transporting, and storing of our food— from the natural resources consumed to the pollution produced to the greenhouse gases emitted
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Multiple Choice
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Our Food's Impact
With our current system, we will not be able to feed the 9 billion people on our plantet by 2050
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Multiple Choice
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Animal Agriculture
Agriculture is responsible for 25% of greenhouse gas emissions -animal agriculture makes up about 80% of this
In the U.S. 10 billion animals are slaughtered yearly
The average American eats over 200 lbs of meat every year
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Multiple Choice
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Animal Agriculture
Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation -82,191 acres a day. That's 43 football fields in ONE minute
1,800 gallons of water is needed for ONE pound of beef. That's the same as 105 eight minute showers a day!
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Multiple Choice
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Animal Agriculture
Livestock produce 2 billion TONS of manure every year in the U.S. This waste (along with bedding, antibiotic residues and chemicals) is sprayed on farm lands across the country as fertilizer.
Livestock provide just 18 percent of calories worldwide, but take up 83 percent of farmland.
Livestock eat 5xs more food than the entire human population
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How can YOU help?
The United Nations declared that plant-based diets have the greatest and most immediate benefit to climate
Reduce eating animal products
Eat more plants
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Poll
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Climate change food calculator: What's your diet's carbon footprint? - BBC News
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Animal Agriculture
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