Debate on future of food to be held at UF 

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A student debate will be held on fighting food waste and global hunger at the University of Florida on Monday.  

The free event, titled “The Future of Food: Is Reappropriating Western Food Waste an Optimal Way to Fight Global Hunger?”, will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 5 at Pugh Hall Ocora (296 Buckman Dr.) in Gainesville. 

The topic of the debate centers around the worldwide problem of food waste and combatting world hunger.   

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A popular proposal to combat world hunger is reappropriating food waste from the global West, but the practicality and merit of this proposal is highly debated among scholars and international policymakers.  

Two teams of two students from UF’s speech and debate team will debate the topic and the event will be moderated by Gil Carter, assistant instructional professor and director of debate for the William and Grace Dial Center for Speech and Communication Studies. 

Sydney Wydra, a first-year anthropology student, and Evan Smith, a fourth-year history and political science student, will face off against Ajay Pooran, a first-year international studies student, and Ashlynn Cechowski, a first-year English student.  

The judging panel for this debate includes Scott Angle, Christa Court, Tie Liu, Emily Rine Butler and Tess Segal.  

A reception with the debaters and judges will immediately follow. Faculty, students, staff and the community are encouraged to attend. The event will be recorded and posted online. 

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