1. The authors opinion on eating cantaloupes is that the ones from Colorado are contaminated by a bacteria that could kill some people and to stay away from these melons from Calarodo.
2. I was able to figure out the authors opinion because of how much he talked about how the melons are ransid.
3. This sentance is important becasue it tellls people that the melons are nasty and without this sentence people would not know that the melons were not good.