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    Skip the Excuses: If You Waste Food You’re an Asshole – Happy Thanksgiving

    If coercing your children into cutting food waste by imagining starving babies makes sense to you, do it. It’s lazy, but you’re probably parentally lazy elsewhere, too, so don’t sweat it. Just remember that you may be doing little more than perpetuating a failed cycle, thereby squandering the lessons you (thought you) learned as a kid.