Letters to the Editor

Education through technology

Education through the use of technology should be used to end world hunger in our world of plenty. This use of technology would save lives, be used as an educational learning tool, and produce a positive use of technology while working towards sustainability.

According to the World Food Program USA, deaths of children in the world caused by hunger related causes are a staggering 45% (World Food Program USA, 2022). Another problem attributing to children deaths, estimated at 700 children a day, is due to the illnesses children contact due to dirty water and unsanitary living conditions; that causes parasites, diarrhea, and chronic intestinal inflammation; that keeps children’s bodies from obtaining necessary nutrients to sustain their bodies (Action Against Hunger, 2022).

Freerice was created to be used as an educational tool originally created by John Breen in 2007, to prepare his son for the SATs. Breen later donated the site to the World Food Program to continue the fight against hunger.

Education using technology is paramount in helping to save lives in this fight against hunger, educating our current and future societies, and to use technology for a good productive reason to help create a sustainable future for tomorrow.

Jermiia Mosley

Tyler

Facts about sustainability

In the world’s attempt to be more sustainable, fake “Beyond Meat” and other vegan and vegetarian options are being created from things like pea protein, natural flavors, rice protein, and canola and vegetable oils. However, consuming these manmade products is not any better for the environment then a grass-fed cow. Cow consumption and meat consumption has a bad reputation for creating large carbon emissions, but if we let cows return to the original grazing pastures of grass, we can use regenerative farming to lower carbon emission and put nutrients back into our soils that we have lost and make the world more sustainable (Murphy, 2012).

Consuming grass-fed beef seems to be crazy in this new society filled with oat milk and soy-based protein, but it has immense health benefits. Just from one serving of grass fed beef liver, you will get Vitamin A, E, K, an assortment of B vitamins including B12 and B6, iron, magnesium, copper and more (Maggio, 2019). Forget your synthetic multivitamins!

One of my favorite ways to attempt to be sustainable is Nose-to-Tail eating. Nose-to-Tail eating is not a new idea, our ancestors did it (McPhee, 2023). Nose-to-Tail eating is a way to simultaneously get the most nutrient-rich foods and reducing waste by using the majority, if not all of the animal being consumed (McAuliffe, 2022). Research this endeavor and see what new sustainable habits you create!

Emily Powell

Tyler