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
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