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This Apple Could Have Been Saved

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In the article "This apple could have been saved" by Kristen Lewis, (and reporter Adee Braun) the author explains some ways food gets wasted every year in America. One way food gets wasted is because when the food in a store doesn 't look perfect for some people, they won 't buy it. This results in the food being thrown away by the store. This is important because it shows that it 's our faults for being too picky with our choices, and now we have to live with the consequences. One way to reduce the food waste that we produce would be to eat the uglier produce. As stated in the informational text, bruised and damaged produce tastes the same as produce that isn 't bruised. This is important because it shows how easily this problem could
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