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How can we make our school less wasteful? One way is to cut down on food waste. In my opinion, the best way to get our students to waste less food is by changing our lunch schedules dramaticMost importantly, we should have lunch after recess. When we play before lunch, we burn off calories and feel hungrier. Therefore, we will eat more at lunchtime. The National Food Service Management Institute at the University of Mississippi shows that when lunch followed recess, plate waste was sliced from 40 percent to 27 p In addition, we should have a longer lunch period. Ours is only twenty minutes. This doesn't give us enough time to finish our lunches. According to one school cook in Ohio, the lunch period should be lengthened to thirty minutes. She believes students won't throw away so much food if they have more time to talk with their friends and eat. According to a 2003 study by the National Food Service Management Institute, schools with thirty-minute lunch periods have less food waste than schools with twenty-minute lunch periods do. The study looked at 1,119 students in grades 3 to 5 who had a twenty-minute lunch and 758 students who had a 30-minute lunch.Also, lunch lines are too long and too slow. When students have to wait, they have even less time to eat. In some schools, students only have 10 to 15 minutes to gobble their food! In order to be on time to class, they end up throwing out food because there's no time to eat it. A longer lunch period, along with quicker food service, is the answer.

Finally, we should eat lunch at a more reasonable time. One reason for food waste is that some students are forced to eat lunch not long after they arrive at school. If lunch is served at 10:45 a.m., students aren't hungry enough to eat the whole meal. Another reason for food waste is that some students have lunch late in the school day. They are forced to fill up on snacks they buy from vending machines or bring from home. In either case, food waste is the result. I support making changes to the lunch schedule next year. Playtime before lunchtime, thirty-minute lunch periods, and lunch service at more appropriate times will result in less food waste in schon my opinion, the best way to get our students to waste less food is by changing our lunch schedules dramatically.

Which sentence BEST describes how the author supports this claim with relevant evidence?The author uses personal stories instead of data to explain why food waste is a problem in schools.

The author appeals mainly to emotion by describing how students feel when they have short lunch periods.

The author gives several reasons that focus on how adjusting the school lunch schedule could reduce food waste, then supports each reason with specific studies and examples.

The author repeats the same claim in different ways without including reliable research to support it.

Answer 1

The author gives several reasons that focus on how adjusting the school lunch schedule could reduce food waste, then supports each reason with specific studies and examples.