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Allen 1 Essay 2: An Argument on Food Waste in America Introduction An estimated of 1.3 billion tons of food, about 30 percent of global production, is lost or wasted annually while 800 billion go hungry. Much of this waste happens in the United States. According to Oliver Milman, a writer for The Guardian, “Americans waste about a pound of food per person each day […]. About 150,000 tons of food is tossed out in US households each day, equivalent to about a third of the daily calories that each American consumes.” The numbers are shocking. But there is something we can all do about it. In this classroom, we find young students who will soon inherit this crisis, we find parents who do the grocery shopping and cooking in the household, and we find some who work at restaurants or grocery stores. In the end, we are all consumers of food, and it is my hope that this unit will get us to consider our consumption, and more specifically what we don’t end up consuming, more closely and carefully. With this assignment, we will address the food waste epidemic by analyzing its core causes and effects while considering ways that we can advocate for solutions and change. Reading and Writing Skills Over the course of this assignment, we will continue to work on developing key academic reading and writing skills, which you will use throughout your career as a student and which constitute the basis of most scholarly writing. We will be annotating and close reading texts, dissecting parts of argument, evaluating different types of sources, taking into consideration the purpose and audience of our writing, and finally creating our own arguments by developing strong thesis statements, incorporating sources into our argument and thoroughly explaining and analyzing evidence to convince our intended audience of our argument and to hopefully make a change. Focusing Questions Now that you briefly understand what we are doing with this assignment and why we are doing it, I will now introduce our guiding questions. Through our reading and writing over the next few weeks, we will be considering and discussing the following: What are the primary causes and/or immediate effects of the current food waste crisis? What are some possible solutions to this crisis? Allen 2 Assignment Overview The section below outlines the specific requirement of this assignment. Purpose The purpose of this assignment is to: 1. Read and respond to a college-level text. 2. Compose college-level writing. 3. Evaluate sources for credibility and appropriateness in respect to their audience and purpose. 4. Complete the writing process—synthesizing information, brainstorming, outlining and writing drafts. 5. Respond to a topic with an original argument. Goals This assignment will help students meet the following Student Learning Objectives, as stated on the course syllabus: 1. Use active/critical-reading strategies to produce accurate, concise summaries of college level/academic texts. 2. 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. 3. Utilize the various phases in the writing process—prewriting, writing revision, and proofreading—to produce clear, articulate, well-supported, well-organized essays. 4. Avoid plagiarism by properly citing quoted, summarized, and paraphrased material using MLA format. Texts • • • • • Aubrey, Allison. “It's Time To Get Serious About Reducing Food Waste, Feds Say.” National Public Radio Inc, 16 Sept. 2015. 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.Web. Qi, Danyi, Brian E. Roe. “Household Food Waste: Multivariate Regression and Principal Components of Analyses of Awareness and Attitudes among U.S. Consumers.” PLoS One. 21 Jul. 2016. Allen Task Compose an essay, between 4-6 pages in length, which presents an argument about the causes and effects of food waste in the United States and presents possible solutions to the crisis. More Specifically: • • Identify a narrowed topic and develop an argument about that topic Be well organized and demonstrate coherence. Your paper should include: o An introduction section that states your topic and thesis; o A discussion section which develops your argument with PIE paragraphs; o A conclusion section which wraps up the paper. o Utilizes at least three sources from the list. o Only use sources provided in this prompt. o At least two direct quotes in each body paragraph. o NOTE: Since you are citing the articles and videos, don’t forget your Works Cited page. 3 Allen Final Draft Rubric Skilled Adequate Developing Not Yet Well-developed introductory paragraph contains detailed background information, a clear explanation or definition of the problem, and a thesis statement. Introductory paragraph contains some background information and states the problem, but does not explain using details. States the thesis of the paper. Introduction states the thesis but does not adequately explain the background of the problem. The problem is stated, but lacks detail. Thesis and/or problem is vague or unclear. Background details are a seemingly random collection of information, unclear, or not related to the topic. CONCLUSION Conclusion summarizes the main topics without repeating previous sentences; writer's opinions and suggestions for change are logical and well thought out. Conclusion summarizes main topics. Some suggestions for change are evident. Conclusion summarizes main topics, but is repetitive. No suggestions for change and/or opinions are included. Conclusion does not adequately summarize the main points. No suggestions for change or opinions are included. MAIN POINTS Body Paragraphs PIE Paragraph Structure Three or more main points are well developed with supporting details. Three or more main points are present but may lack detail and development in one or two. Three or more main points, but all lack development.. Less than three main points, with poor development of ideas. USE OF SOURCES Documentation All source material is used and smoothly integrated into the text. All sources are accurately documented and in the desired format on the Works Cited page. All sources are relevant and reliable. All source material is used. All sources are accurately documented, but a few are not in the desired format on the Works Cited page. Most sources are relevant and reliable. All sources are accurately documented, but many are not in the desired format on the Works Cited page. Some sources are relevant and reliable. Lacks sources and/or sources are not accurately documented. Incorrect format is used. Sources are neither relevant nor reliable. Punctuation and capitalization are correct. Sentence structure is correct, and the language used in the essay is easy to understand. Sentence structure is generally correct. Some awkward sentences do appear. There are one or two errors in punctuation and/or capitalization. Work contains structural weaknesses and grammatical errors. There are three or four errors in punctuation and/or capitalization. Work contains multiple incorrect sentence structures. There are four or more errors in punctuation and/or capitalization. INTRODUCTION Background/History Define the Problem Thesis Statement MECHANICS Sentence Clarity, Punctuation & Capitalization 4 Essay #2; Food Waste Stop Don't Dump a Treasure Dumping food is dumping money and is more hungry people and more pollution. According to a research article, the world population is expected to increase to 9.3 billion people by the mid of the century. This means the food production should increase 60% of the present production (Danyi Qi and Brian E. Roe, 1). Also, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations reported that there is about 2.8 trillion pounds of food loss and waste annually (Elizabeth Royte, 3). However, food loss is the responsibility of everyone starting from the farmers who plant the produce, the industries that pro ng it, to retailers such as the supermarkets who buy it and sell it to the public, to the restaurants and ends up in our kitchen. However, there are multi factors that effect our behavior in dumping the healthy food while there are millions of people are hungry, especially in the developing countries while still people in the developed countries are food insecure. In fact, the developing countries waste food because of lack of technology such as refrigeration and transportation for instance, in Africa about 10% to 20% of the grains are spoiled because of the storage. Similarly, in India the losses of fruit and vegetables is 35% to 40% annually (Royte, 4-5). While the industrialized countries waste 1.5 trillion pounds of food annually equal to whole production of Africa (Royte, 5). However, in the USA the waste of food is affected by the attitude of consumers, the lack of incentives to donate 2 the food by retailers, the policy to protect those who donate the food. While others argue that they have the right to trash the expired and non-fresh food. To begin with the attitude of the consumers, a study conducted by Qi and Roe measuring the behavior/attitude of household related to food waste, reveals that “69.7% of respondents say that they waste food because food expired as labeled date, causes illness.” (7). This means two third of the consumers in the survey have misconception about the expiration date. Also, “58.4% admit that throwing food is bad for the environment” (7). The authors explain that this answer means they have feeling of guilt, behaving against the right behavior. However, two third of them (63%) feels they are not losing money on wasting food. Nevertheless, Elizabeth Royte points out that people overbuy food, store it improperly. She further clarifies that the expiration date is the peak of freshness and have nothing to do with food safety. However, the lack of incentives discourages the realters donating the food. According to John Olive states that “it is easier and cheaper for the industry to throw it away because for economic incentive” (you tube). Oliver points out that retailers would rather dump the food products than donating it, because they will lose money, especially if their food labeled as level 2 according to the American food standard. To encourage the retailers to donate their unwanted food there should be an incentive such as tax reduction. Furthermore, the food can be given to livestock as part of the solution. However, Royte says the first step in reducing the food waste is making the people aware at about the existing problem of food waste. People has to know when they are dumping food they are contributing to the environment pollution, because the garbage in the landfill will decay and emit methane and carbon dioxide. Moreover, Lack of policy to protect those who donate food. According to Tristan Stuart "We domesticated pigs to turn food waste back into food. And yet, in Europe, that practice has 3 become illegal since 2001 as a result of the foot-and-mouth outbreak” (11:46). Stuart explains that this policy is preventing retailers from donating massive food to animals to produce another kind of food for human being. So, what is the solution? Using unwanted healthy food for the animals will feed them instead of planting food for them such as importing soya beans to feed them. This process will save the environment from extra garbage that will emit gases that pollute the water and the air, will save money and will feed the hungry people. Some argue that they have the right to trash the expired and non-fresh food. According to Aubrey says American should be more sensitive toward wasting food, she states that the “national 50 percent waste reduction goal will be voluntary” (par 8). Aubrey explains that there should be more public education about how to shop and cook to reduce food waste. Also, there should be a policy requires the households to sort out their wasted food, such as in Seattle the homeowners will be fined for not sorting their garbage. Also, in Massachusetts food waste is band for certain institutions and expected other states to do the same. However, the people should not have the right to accumulate garbage from healthy edible food, it should be donated to charity centers. After all, food waste is the responsibility of all and it is a problem all over the world. However, the most contributors to the food waste are the consumers, the retailers, and the policy makers. In fact, in the mid century the population is expected to increase by 9.3 billion while 2.8 trillion pounds of food are wasted annually. Nevertheless, the developing and developed countries are wasting food. For instance, in Africa they waste about 10% to 20% of the grains because of improper and in India they waste 35% to 40% annually of food and vegetables. While the industrialized countries waste 1.5 trillion pounds of food annually equal to whole production of Africa. There are many ways food waste can be avoided such as make the public and the
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Food wastage
Wasting food is equal to spending money and other resources carelessly when millions of
people are hungry in the world. Some skip meals unwillingly or goes a day without a meal.
Various publications indicate that the world population is increasing and is expected to hit 9
billion by 2030. Food production is expected to increase by 50% or more to satisfy the growing
population. Food waste is rising to be a threat to the environment, economic, and social life. The
environment is profoundly affected, considering a lot of trash disposed in the landfill, and others
burned in incinerator, releasing harmful gas to the atmosphere. People at the household level are
responsible for food waste either directly or indirectly. United States, is among the nation with a
leading population in food disposal from high social class moving down (Reynolds et al, 2014).
As a result, there is a need to create time and talk about consumer food awareness and attitudes
among the United States consumer. Food loss should be the responsibility of everyone, starting
from the farmers, distributors, sellers, and consumers. From the studies made by
Papargyropoulou et al (2014) states, developing states waste a lot of food due to inferior
technology and ignorance. Transportation means used, and storage means used in developing
nations contribute significantl...


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