Persuasive Speech of Fact
Channel: A. Cumming
Date: 2015-07-02

Reducing Food Waste 

I. Introduction
 A. Not finding enough food to eat - food scraps could feed the hungry.  (Allen, 2015)
 B. Encourage individuals to limit their food waste.
 C. Main Points
  1. What food waste is.
  2. Food waste statistics.
  3. Actions people can take.

II. What is food waste?
 A. Definition of food waste.  (USDA, 2015)
 B. Examples of food waste.
  1. Food going unconsumed.
  2. Throwing away good food scraps.
  3. Not eating leftovers.
 C. Food waste affect on the environment.  (NSW, 2012)

III. Food waste statistics.
 A. Importance of food in society.
 B. Food that goes to waste.  (FWRA, 2015)
  1. Pounds of food wasted.
  2. How many people it could feed.
 C. Landfills and food waste.  (UNEP, 2015)

IV. How people can combat the affects of food waste.  (USDA, 2015)
 A. Reduce
  1. Improving cooking and storing methods.
  2. Limit amount of food made.
  3. Using different marketing strategies. 
 B. Recover
  1. Find a hunger relief program/organization. 
  2. Donations.
 C. Recycle
  1. Give scraps to pets/animals.
  2. Use scraps to create compost/fertilizers.

V. Conclusion
 A. Food waste and its negative affects.  Importance of food to the world.
 B. Review of main points
  1. What food waste is.
  2. Statistics about food waste.
  3. How we can combat negative affects of food waste.
 C. Cutting down food waste helps to sustain the environment and the population.

References

Allen, P.  (2015).  Child Hunger in America:  Omarion’s story.  Retrieved from http://www.feedthechildren.org/2015/04/child-hunger-in-america-omarions-story/
Food Waste Reduction Alliance.  (2015).  Food waste in America:  How we can reduce food waste and feed hungry families.  Retrieved from http://www.feedingamerica.org/about-us/how-we-work/securing-meals/reducing-food-waste.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/
New South Wales Government.  (2012).  Environmental impacts.  Retrieved from http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.nsw.gov.au/love-food/environmental-impacts.aspx
United Nations Environment Programme.  (2015).  Food waste:  The facts.  Retrieved from http://www.worldfooddayusa.org/food_waste_the_facts
United States Department of Agriculture.  (2015).  U.S. food waste challenge.  Retrieved from http://www.usda.gov/oce/foodwaste/faqs.htm