Solutions to Food Wastage

What are some possible solutions to this crisis?

Read and respond to a college-level text.

Compose college-level writing.

Evaluate sources for credibility and appropriateness in respect to their audience and purpose.

Complete the writing process—synthesizing information, brainstorming, outlining and writing drafts.

Respond to a topic with an original argument.

Goals

• Use active/critical-reading strategies to produce accurate, concise summaries of college level/academic texts.
• Synthesize researched material from multiple texts to create and support an argument in response to a prompt. Draw direct evidence from texts in support of claims and analyze how that evidence supports the claim.
• Utilize the various phases in the writing process—prewriting, writing revision, and proofreading—to produce clear, articulate, well-supported, well-organized essays.
• Avoid plagiarism by properly citing quoted, summarized, and paraphrased material using MLA format.

Use just these sources

• Aubrey , Allison. “It’s Time To Get Serious About Reducing Food Waste, Feds Say.” National Public Radio Inc, 16 Sept. 2015.
• Wasted: The Story of Food Waste. Directed by Anna Chai and Nari Kye. 2017.
• Oliver, John. “Food Waste.” Last Week Tonight. 19 Jul. 2015. Web.

• Royte , Elizabeth. “One-Third of Food Is Lost or Wasted: What Can Be Done.” National Geographic, 13 Oct. 2014.
• Stuart, Tristan. “The Global Food Waste Scandal.” Ted Talk. TEDSalon, London. Sep 2012.We

• Identify a narrowed topic and develop an argument about that topic
• Be well organized and demonstrate coherence. Your paper should include:
  • An introduction section that states your topic and thesis;
  • Body paragraphs that develop your argument with PIE paragraphs;
  • A conclusion section which wraps up the paper
  • You must cite at least three different sources in this essay.
  • NOTE: Since you are citing the articles and videos, and possibly your own sources, don’t forget your Works Cited page.

Answer preview

Solutions to Food Wastage

According to Aubrey (2015), food wastage or otherwise known as food loss occurs when food that has not been consumed is thrown away as rubbish. Food wastage contributes a great deal to the detriment of a country’s economy. It, in turn, wasted a lot of money that would have otherwise been used for the development of a country or for feeding citizens of third-world countries who often go days if not weeks without food. Statistically, one-third of the food produced in the US is wasted. This amounts to approximately 1.3 billion tonnes of food. When this amount of food is wasted, one also has to think of the resources that were put into the production of the food as wasted. This means…

 

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