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Elizabeth Royte Waste

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Essay 1 Every year about a third of what the world produces is wasted. This equates to 2.9 trillion pounds of food. The wastage comes from our homes, restaurants, and even the farmers who produce it. Food wastage is an epidemic with dangerous outcomes; from deforestation to the draining of our fresh-water bodies, the population is in trouble. The food wastage movement is a movement that needs to be publicized. It is important to hear the voices of journalists and pioneers in this movement. Royte plans to educate her readers in her essay with expert testimony, facts, and helpful tips to discuss the issues on global food wastage.
“Waste Not Want Not” written by Elizabeth Royte, a former Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow, covers the story of …show more content…

To begin, Royte’s writing includes clarity and quality to ease the reader into her plea. She includes quality research, such as expert testimony from Tristram Stuart, a pioneer in the global food wastage movement. Royte also includes a page of statistics that details produce waste to tracking the amount lost in production. Royte also shows her credibility by having background knowledge of the situation of food wastage. Royte is an accomplished environmental journalist that studies these very happenings. Royte’s article is up to date in its time. Her essay covers something very real that is affecting the public even today. Royte’s writing is reachable amongst many crowds. The text contains vocabulary that is simple to understand to most who read it. Royte’s passion for the environmental subject and her profession shine throughout the text.You can pick up her passion while reading the essay. Next, with the use of statistics and expert testimony, Royte reaches her audience through logic and emotion. The statistics in the article range from the amount of produce wasted to how it devastates our land. Royte, claims that 19% of produce is uneaten and is discarded in our homes, (par. 41). Royte wants readers to know how much waste is created in the homes of everyday people. Royte also notes that agriculture is to blame for, “80 percent of the world’s tropical and

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