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The authors purpose is to tell the reader about how much people on thanksgiving throw away

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The people throw away a ton! ,
of food!

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To inform readers the importance of conserving, and using our thanksgiving leftovers, and all leftovers in general.

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He likes leftovers

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The author's purpose of writing this article is to persuade the reader to not waste as much food and try to save some for later.

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The authors purpose is to inform the reader about how leftovers can potentially be harmful to the environment, and to inform them about how many people are wasting their food.

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The authors purpose of writing this article is show how much food is wasted yearly

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To explain why the author thinks we waste to much of leftovers from thanksgiving meals.

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The purpose of this article was to inform the reader on how much food is wasted, especially on thanksgiving.

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The author's purpose is to persuade the reader to eat more leftovers and waste less food.

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The author's purpose of writing this article is to show us the negative effects and consequences of throwing away leftovers too soon. 

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The author's purpose of writing this article is to show us the negative effects and consequences of throwing away leftovers too soon. 

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They point out the weakness by saying about the sell by dates not always being accurate, and because if the food is slightly deformed in some way they just throw it out, instead of freezing it.

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The authors purpose was to inform us how much foods gets wastes that are mostly perfectly fine to eat and to make us understand how wasteful we can do without noticing

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The authors purpose was to inform us how much foods gets wastes that are mostly perfectly fine to eat and to make us understand how wasteful we can do without noticing

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The author uses a mixture of persuasive writing to convince the reader and an informative approach in providing facts to back up his claim. The writer uses facts such as percentages and qoutes to show much grocery stores and restuarants are to blame for food waste. The authors purpose for writing this article is to point awareness to the overbaring amount of food waste going on in our world.

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The authors purpose is to make people aware of the wastefulness of throwing things away when they could be eaten

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They purchase in large quantities and throw out the surplus amount.

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The author's purpose for writing this article is to try and persuade people to eat leftovers instead of throwing out food.

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The author's purpose in writing this article is to try to convince people to save their food instead of wasting it.

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The author's purpose is to inform us of how much leftovers that we throw away after thanksgiving meals.

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The type of persuasive language

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to persuade you to stop wasting food and inform you about the dangers and problem of wasting food

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The author's purpose for writing this article is to persuade Americans to stop wasting food as much as we do.

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The author's purpose for writing this article is to persuade Americans to stop wasting food as much as we do.

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The

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To inform the reader and possibly persuade you into changing your habits.

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The language is formal and lighthearted yet is serious at the same time to make sure that the point they're trying to make is made.

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To inform the reader on why not to throw away leftovers.

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To inform the reader on why not to throw away leftovers.

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The authors purpose is to prude the reader to eat leftovers and not be so involuntary wasteful. However, the author does this by informing the reader of statistics to prove their argument.

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It weakens it because its puts off the idea that he has a bias against eating out by making it seem like they're all put at blame for it when food is wasted both at home and restaurants 

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It weakens it because its puts off the idea that he has a bias against eating out by making it seem like they're all put at blame for it when food is wasted both at home and restaurants 

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The author's purpose is to inform us about how much leftovers that we throw away each year after thanksgiving meals.

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he says that people waste food for no reason

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Because of the out of date labels that show when the food should be eaten by.

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They throw food away by the sell by date.

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They throw food away by the sell by date.

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He gives information backing up his opinion only.

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He gives information backing up his opinion only.

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The authors gives us statistics of how much food is thrown away, of what kinds are not being used and how much food is sitting instead of being consumed.

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The authors gives us statistics of how much food is thrown away, of what kinds are not being used and how much food is sitting instead of being consumed.

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Restaurants and grocery stores throw a lot of things out at the end of the day, especially restaurants

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persuade others to save leftovers and to not throw out perfectly good food.

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The author uses persuasive and informative writing

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The author gives statistics on how much restaurants and grocery stores waste food. 

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The author gives statistics on how much restaurants and grocery stores waste food. 

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By giving statistics and information that points the blame towards the house holds.

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He thinks that it’s important to understand why you should eat leftovers and think before you toss them

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The language of the author indicates that wasting food is bad and that leftovers should be eaten.

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He uses language that makes you feel guilty for the actions you have taken and

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Both of  those get rid ofa  lot of food and have to big of proportions.

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The author uses persuasive and informative langueage.