Food Waste Today

Food Waste Today

The article In a world of abundance, food waste is a crime, is more persuasive then the article Half of US food goes to waste. The first article is more persuasive merely because of how the evidence is presented and how the author presents the information, while the second article is similar and has many significant details, is much more vague in the description and evidence presented.

The U.S. has the potential to be a role model to many other undeveloped, starving from food waste countries. As we are wasting massive amount of food in the U.S, as well as many other countries for various significant reason, we're learning as well. There are groups within states of the U.S., strictly volunteer at this point, but there are people that will bring food to those who are starving, that food which would have been wasted otherwise. From that it makes the U.S. able to be a role model. This is the argument presented in the article of In a world of abundance, food waste is a crime, although this seems to be the most persuasive of two articles read there are significant points of the second article of Half of US food goes to waste. Based off the studies done by the University of Phoenix, they've seen that there is a scandalous amount of food from harvest going to waste. The amount of food that is edible and just gets tossed, could be a case of national security according to Timothy Jones, an anthropologist at the UA Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology. The information that he found is that we're wasting food before it even hits the market. In this article it goes on to say how obviously, some food is going to be wasted, but the significant amount that is wasted can defiantly be prevented. The overall argument is though that by making people aware how much waste is going on in the production companies, they would be more frugal and realize the lost they're taking in funds.

There is a significant amount of evidence provided within the first article, covering many different types of information proving this article would the most persuasive. Using comparison between the U.S. and the sub-Saharan Africa is showing the huge difference between how the U.S. wastes their food with the proper technologies to not, while in Africa, there is no choice because of the lack of technologies. Merely showing the significant amount of starving people in Africa is enough to assume America is wasteful. In order to prove the potential of improve the waste in the U.S. and other countries statistics are used. For example they use the example of Afghanistan and the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) by speaking of metallic sios to improve storage of foods. By doing so the losses in Afghanistan have decrease from 20%, to nearly 1%. By going to drastic measure and saying how "American's of course, are blessed by an abundance of food," is more of a extreme radical, trying to get it through ones head, but it shows that America is the worst. Using statistics once more, the author

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