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Every year, billions of kilograms of fresh produce are wasted in the United States. The food ends up in landfills, producing harmful greenhouse gases. Meanwhile, millions of poor Americans go hungry, without access to healthy, affordable meals.
Evan Lutz is passionate about correcting that social injustice. And he combines that goal with a passion for business.
"My entire life I've wanted to become a social entrepreneur, not just starting a business that made money but also one that gave back. I'm just an average guy with a passion towards, towards making sure no food goes to waste and making sure no person's ever hungry in America and I want to do that through business."
Lutz is CEO and founder of Hungry Harvest. Hungry Harvest is a business which collects and sells "ugly" produce. These are fruits and vegetables that most food companies would throw away. Lutz says more than six billion pounds are wasted each year due to surface imperfections and processing inefficiencies.
"So I'll give you an example. If you go to a grocery store and walk down the aisle and see all the produce lineup shiny, perfect, same size and color you might notice that everything, everything if you go to a farm right everything doesn't grow the same way on a farm. But if you go to a grocery store everything is growing the same exact way. Right. So all that stuff that doesn't grow the same way, oftentimes gets wasted, gets thrown out. And so we take all that stuff that normally get thrown out because it's too big too small in odd size of shape, we box it up into a variety boxes and we deliver to our customers once a week."
Lutz established Hungry Harvest in 2014. Its success depends on team work.
"Every week on Monday or Tuesday we will decide the contents box which will go into the next weeks box right, so we will call up farmers, we will work with packing houses and wholesalers to give them calls, shoot them emails, shoot them texts even or do in person visits to see what they have available that would normally get thrown away that week. We then place the order when we can accurately project how many customers and how many boxes we will have that weekend and so that's the process on Thursdays. And on Fridays we will actually make the boxes for Saturdays. Saturdays we'll make the boxes for Sundays. Sundays will make boxes for Mondays and all of those days we'll do deliveries so Saturdays we'll send out drivers they'll come to our warehouse and make deliveries."
For every purchase and delivery, Hungry Harvest donates healthy food to needy people. Hungry Harvest has recovered 300,000 pounds of produce to date and provided 100,000 pounds to those in need.
Lutz was inspired to act after seeing extreme poverty in areas of Baltimore, Maryland. He says he wants to eliminate the so-called food desert in that area.
"Our plan for 2016 is actually to eliminate a food desert in Baltimore. And how we're going to do that we already have the infrastructure in place. We have drivers that make deliveries to our customers every single week. We have an assembly line and we can use recovered boxes. And really what we want to do is have access to certain areas of Baltimore to fresh produce for really cheap and we'll work on accepting EBIT and WIC and food stamps by the end of the year. So people will go on in these food deserts and be able to go online pay a reduced price for those boxes and then we'll have volunteers then actually assemble and deliver the boxes for us. And that's how you limited food desert grant people access to healthy affordable foods."
In January 2016, Lutz appeared on the American business competition television show "Shark Tank." It connects investors with entrepreneurs. Lutz sought a $50,000 investment in Hungry Harvest, in exchange for a five percent stake in his company. He got even more than he expected: $100,000 for 10 percent ownership.
Lutz is using the money to expand. Right now consumers can receive produce from Hungry Harvest in Maryland, Virginia, Philadelphia and the District of Columbia.
"So, we want to be the largest produce delivery service on the East Coast in five years and the largest in the United States in 10 years. And we wanted to do that with a purpose of reducing food from going to waste and feeding hungry families. Like I said there's six billion pounds of produce that go to waste every single year. How amazing would it be if we can reduce 1 billion pounds of that from going to waste and give that to our customers and donate that to hungry families right. Or if there are 50 million people that are food insecure. What if we could eliminate that and make it 25 million people that are food insecure in the next 10 years right. That's the impact. I think this model can make. And that's exactly what we plan to do over the next ten years."
For Evan Lutz, giving back to others came from his upbringing.
"When I was growing up my parents instilled in me the values of giving back and giving is a lot more powerful than receiving. And so I wanted to bring that to life when I was fulfilling my career dreams of being an entrepreneur."
Lutz says Hungry Harvest has turned that hope into a reality.
"I live breathe and literally eat hungry harvest. So this is my entire life. I'm not unsatisfied at all not having a life outside of hungry harvest this is what I do. And I love what I do. It's a dream come true"
But Evan Lutz now has even bigger dreams for Hungry Harvest. Why not end food waste and hunger in America.
"We sell produce with purpose and that doesn't just mean we reduce food from going to waste. It doesn't just mean we give back to the community in terms of donations and feeding the hungry. It doesn't just mean we hire people that are getting back on their feet, we hire people that were formerly in prison and we hire people that were formerly injured or were sick they were living in homeless shelters they were really looking to get back on their feet for a second chance in life."
And so we live by this mantra of... we want to live a life of purpose. And we do that and we just happen to sell fruits and vegetables. So everything we do has a social purpose, has a social impact in Hungry Harvest and that is reflected in how we live our daily lives. And we're really happy to be fulfilling great mission and to be doing something that's really sustainable and that we think can really revolutionize the food industry in America."
重点解析
1.Make sure确保
Make sure that you capture the answers to these questions from them.
确保一定要从他们那里找到这些问题的答案。
2.throw away扔掉，丢弃
Experts expect to throw away some early work. They plan for plans to change.
专家料到会扔掉一些初期的作品,他们为计划的改变作了计划.
3.depend on 取决于
Which is why an article like this can be transformational or worthless – it all depends on you.
这也是为什么像这样的文章可能被转化，也可能一文不值——这都取决于你。
4.send out 发送；派遣
As a result, these girls did not want to send out adores, or did not respond to adores that they were receiving.
结果这些女生并不想发送她们爱慕的人，或者不对她们收到的爱慕信息进行回应。
5.be able to能够；
After working through this tutorial, you should be familiar with all these topics and be able to use them in your editing sessions.
在完成本教程的学习之后，您应该熟悉所有的这些主题，并且能够在您的编辑会话中使用它们。
6.live by以…为生
After all, all living creatures live by feeding on something else,whether it be plant or animal, dead or alive.
因为一切生物都是靠吃别的东西来活命的，不管这种东西是植物还是动物，死的还是活的。
参考译文
在美国，每年有数十亿公斤的新鲜农产品被浪费。这些食物最终会扔到垃圾填埋场，产生有害的温室气体。同时，数百万的美国人在忍受饥饿，他们吃不到健康的、买得起的食物。
埃文·鲁茨对纠正这种社会不公有着很高的热情。他把这个目标和对商业的热情结合起来。
“在我的一生中，我一直想成为一名社会企业家，我不仅要创业赚钱，而且要回报社会。我只是一个追求食物不会被浪费掉、确保在美国没有人挨饿的普通人。我希望通过商业做到这一点。
鲁茨是HH公司的CEO和创始人。HH公司是一个收集和销售“丑陋”农产品的公司。大多数食品公司会把这些水果和蔬菜扔掉。鲁茨说，由于食物表面缺陷和加工效率低下，每年浪费60多亿镑。
“我给你举个例子吧。如果你去到一个杂货店，沿着走廊走，你看到所有的产品都是闪亮的，完美的，它们有同样的大小和颜色。你可能会注意到，如果你去农场，所有的东西，对的，在农场里生长的所有的产品都不一样。但是如果你去杂货店，所有的产品都是一个样子。是这样吧。所以所有的农产品都长得不一样。它们经常会被浪费掉，被扔掉。所以那些太大、太小、形状尺寸奇特的产品就会被扔掉。我们把产品装进各种各样的箱子里，每周送货一次。”
鲁茨2014年创建了HH公司。公司的成功取决于团队合作。
“每周一或周二我们会决定下周要运货的箱子要装什么产品。所以我们会打电话给农民，我们会打电话给包装公司和批发商，跟他们合作。给他们发电子邮件，发短信，甚至亲自去拜访他们，看看他们有什么通常会在那一周被扔掉的东西。当我们可以准确地预测某一周会有多少客户和多少箱子时，我们会下订单，这是周四的工作。周五我们会准备周六的产品。周六我们会准备周日的产品。周日我们会准备周一的产品。这些天我们会准备要发的货。周六司机们就会来到我们的仓库拉货。
每次购买和发货，HH公司都会捐赠健康的食物给需要的人们。HH公司至今已回收30万磅农产品，并向需要帮助的人提供了10万镑产品。
鲁茨是在看到马里兰州巴尔的摩市的极端贫困地区后，受到鼓舞而采取行动的。他说，他想消除那个地区的所谓的食物沙漠。
“我们2016年的计划实际上是消除巴尔的摩的食物沙漠。我们已经为此准备了相应的基础结构。每周我们都有给我们的顾客运送食品的车辆。我们有一条作业线，我们可以使用回收的箱子。我们真正想做的是让巴尔的摩的某些地区能够以非常便宜的价格获得新鲜农产品我们将致力于在年底前接受EBIT、WIC和食品券。所以人们将在这些食物沙漠继续生活，并能够在网上以较低的价格购买这些产品。然后我们会有志愿者为我们装配和运送产品。这就是限制食物沙漠存在的方式。通过给人们提供购买健康的、能负担的起的食品的渠道。”
2016年1月，鲁茨参加了美国商业竞争电视节目《鲨鱼坦克》。该节目给投资者和企业家提供了联系。鲁茨想在《鲨鱼坦克》节目中寻求到50000美元的投资，并以5%的股份作为交换。最终他的收获超过了自己的预期，他得到了100000美金，并让出10%的股份。
鲁茨将会利用这笔钱进行扩张。现在，在马里兰州、弗吉尼亚州、费城和哥伦比亚特区，消费者可以从HH公司中获得农产品。
“所以，五年内我们想成为东海岸最大的农产品配送服务公司，十年内成为美国最大的农产品配送服务公司。我们实现这个目标时还有一个目的，那就是减少食物浪费，帮助饥饿的家庭。就像我说的每年有60亿磅的农产品被浪费掉。如果我们能减少10亿镑的浪费，把这些食物捐给我们的客户，捐给饥饿的家庭，那该有多好。或者如果有5000万人没有粮食保障。如果我们能消除这个问题，让在未来10年处于食物不安全的状态的人数减少到2500万人，会有多好。这就是影响力。我认为这种模式可以成功。这就是我们打算在下个十年做的事情。”
对埃文·鲁茨来说，回馈他人的思想来自于自己的成长经历。
“在我成长的过程中，我的父母向我灌输了回报的价值观，付出比接受更有力量。所以，当我实现自己成为企业家的职业梦想时，我想把这一切变成现实。”
卢茨说，HH公司使这种希望变成了现实。
“我靠HH公司而活。这就是我所有的生活。对没有HH公司的生活，我一点也不满足，这就是我所做的事情。我热爱我所做的事情。这就是梦想成真。”
但是埃文·鲁茨现在甚至有更大的梦想。为什么不终结美国的食物浪费和饥饿现象呢？
“我们带着目的销售农产品，但是这并不仅仅意味着我们能减少食物的浪费。这并不仅仅意味着我们通过捐赠食物给挨饿的人的方式回馈社区。这并不仅仅意味着我们雇佣那些重新站起来的人。我们雇用那些以前在监狱里的人，我们雇用以前受伤或生病的人，他们以前无家可归，住在收容所。他们真的希望能重新站起来，获得人生的第二次机会。
所以我们生活在这种真言之中，我们想过有目标的人生。我们过着这样的人生，我们碰巧是在销售水果和蔬菜。所以我们在HH公司所做的每一件事情都有一个社会目的，都有着社会影响。这个就反映在我们的日常生活当中。我们真的很高兴能完成重大的使命，做一些可持续发展的事情。而且，我们觉得我们可以改革美国的食品工业。”
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