World hunger
While skipping a meal might feel like a minor inconvenience, globally, a lack of access to safe, nutritious foos means 1 in 11 people favs daily reality.
What is undernourishment?
How much food does the average U.S. household throws annually?
What is 400 pounds?
What is the number one most trashed food in household bins?
What is bread? 💵🍞
Advanced societies have barely begun to make efforts to reduce these two major outcomes of resource overconsumption.
What is waste and pollution? (USCCB)
Throwing out food is morally equivalent to doing what action to the poor?
What is stealing?
“whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor” (Laudato Si)
An individual in the United States uses this many time more energy than a person in a developing nation
What is 28? (USCCB)
How many people can the planet feed with the amount food it already produces?
What is 10 billion?
How much money do U.S. residents spend on non-essential goods every year?
What is $1.2 trillion?
What percent of food produced is discarded?
What is 33%? (laudato si)
What is the single greatest source of global environmental destruction?
What is Consumption in developed nations (USCCB)