Our consumption of food has, therefore, a huge impact on climate change. However, people have no chance to get educated in that field because there is no knowledge available. During a survey of ifeu Which was carried out in Heidelberg, in Germany, results showed that 9% of Germans do not feel educated enough about CO2 emissions caused by food consumption. Specifically, 85% of them would like to have access to more information about that topic, but almost half of the participants are convinced that food suppliers will not publish data on the greenhouse gas emissions that they produce while manufacturing their end products. That is why two out of three Germans want the government to force food manufacturers to put a CO2 label on their food (ifeu, 2019). "To transform the food system, to achieve Food 2.0, we need to increase people’s awareness of where food comes from and change our behaviors to ensure the proper functioning of our food system." -João Campari, WWF Food Practice Leader (WWF, 2019) Looking at Germany, every resident produces 1.75 tons of emissions per year just from food consumption. According to Germany’s climate targets, the amount for one person per year should be below 0.6 tons, which entails that individual gas emissions have to drastically decrease not only to reach the set targets but to ensure a safe environment for the world’s population and future generations, too. Eighty percent of Germans consider the knowledge about CO2 emissions of food as a human right and believe that every person is individually responsible for saving the planet; therefore, the time to take action has come (vegconomist, 2019). Climate change forces us to change our behavior and the way we think and get out of our comfort zone. Especially wealthy first-world countries 19
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