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Document 1 Stories of Starving Children in Rich United States Sarah is three years old. She and her six-year-old brother, Bryce, are inseparable except when it’s time for him to visit the summer food program that provides meals at a school near his Ohio home for children who otherwise would
Document 1 Stories of Starving Children in Rich United States Sarah is three years old. She and her six-year-old brother, Bryce, are inseparable except when it’s time for him to visit the summer food program that provides meals at a school near his Ohio home for children who otherwise would go hungry. Sarah is too young to make the trip. One morning after Bryce had his fill of food for the day he made a detour 5 before heading home. He walked to the trash cans and began rummaging(1) through food others threw away. Winnie Brewer, the Food Services Supervisor in Marion City schools, noticed the little boy and tapped him on the shoulder to ask why he was sifting(2) through the garbage. “My little sister,” he explained, “she’s hungry.” Bringing her leftover food was the only way he knew to help. 10 “We run into a lot of situations where kids will come and say they have younger brothers or sisters at home,” Brewer says. “They always want to know if they can take something back.” After Brewer spoke with Bryce, staff members followed him home with a care package for little Sarah. This was a temporary solution to a huge problem Brewer worries about every day. 15 There is no excuse for any child in America to go hungry and malnourished in the richest nation on Earth. Yet child hunger is a widespread, urgent and shameful problem that cannot wait. Adapted from http://www.foodwise.com, January 30, 2016 (1) rummaging: searching (2) sifting: picking 18AN2TEG11 Page 2 sur 6 Document 2 So much food, so much waste In wealthy countries, one reason for increasing food waste is the change from a rural farming life to an urban non-agricultural life. We are becoming increasingly separated from our food. We don’t trust our noses any more to tell us when food has gone bad. Consumers are obsessed by the appearance of their fruit and vegetables, so the 5 greengrocers have to throw out “imperfect” produce. In the supermarket, sometimes the packages of food are too large for us to eat it all, again leading to wasted food. Sometimes we let the food rot in the fridge, because we chose to eat in a restaurant, not at home. In restaurants we order huge meals, which we leave half eaten. But wastage also happens in fast food restaurants. For example, in McDonald’s, the unsold