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Food waste problems and how to solve them

Reid McClure, staff writer April 9, 2019
Food waste is one of the many problems the world faces even to this day, particularly in this country. It is considered to be a threat to a healthy environment with all the resources people use to create the food such as land and trees. Not only that, it’s morally wrong as well because there are other hungry people in the world that needed the food that has been wasted more than anyone else. The amount of food that is wasted in the United States is about 30 to 40 percent according to the USDA’s Economic Research Service. This is the type of problem is also present even here on campus.
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