The actress, 32, has been named Ambassador Against Hunger for the United Nations' World Food Programme, and she'll work as an advocate for school feeding programs in developing countries.
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My suggestion: Fight world hunger – keep your food-chain short!
Eating meat means making the food chain from plants to humans longer. This way of producing food by adding another “link” to the chain, i.e. animals, represents a loss of nutrients that we could use directly ourselves. Depending on the type of animal, it takes up to, and sometimes more than, 10 plant calories to deliver 1 meat calorie. If the whole of the human population allowed themselves the “luxury” of eating the amount of meat typically eaten today in the EU and in the USA it would be impossible to feed everyone in the world, and this is not the case for some point far off in the future, this is already the case, right now.
It is a real problem that development aid organisations still invest in livestock in developing countries. Raising non grazing animals like pigs and chicken is the much bigger problem, but also dairy cows are highly inefficient.
http://www.futurefood.org shows alternative ways to produce high protein foods like vegetarian meat (made out of soya or wheat) or a future technology of producing meat without using animals („cultured meat“). Without the massive waste of food-calories as it is the case when raising animals for human nutrition.
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