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TO EAT HEALTHY VIDEO

Topic Food
Central Idea – Eat more healthy

Organic food vs ordinary food

1. Fill in the chart with the following information:
Production
Characteristics
Cost
Availability

Ordinary Food Dilemmas Solutions

Production Production Production
The production of ordinary The dilemma with In production, what would
food is much higher than production is that as the have to be done would be to
organic food, since there are population grows, more food increase the production of
different chemicals or is needed no matter what organic food in order to
pesticides that are put in the the reasons are, and that is lower its price, given that if
food which most of the time why there is no great option there is more, more money
makes it grow bigger and so to improve the way food is is earned and it is cheaper to
it grows more and produces produced. buy.
more. Less production vs Less food
(but with more quality) Characteristics
Characteristics For this one, pesticides
● Grown with synthetic Characteristics should be reduced or
or chemical The issue in this topic is that perhaps the formulas should
fertilizers. in most characteristics, be changed so that there is
● Weeds are controlled organic food is better than no big difference and so that
with chemical ordinary food, but there are perhaps they have the same
herbicides. different reasons for not properties and try to have
● Pests are controlled opting to buy it, and the fact the same characteristics so
with synthetic of necessity is a factor that that they do not vary from
pesticides regardless of its benefits we many as is the current case.
● For meat and eggs it choose to buy the ordinary
use hormones food. Cost
● More price than Quality vs. quantity As mentioned above,
ordinary food producing more organic food
Cost would reduce its price and
Cost The dilemma of the cost is thus compete with the price
that many people cannot
 According to a study of 17
organic products, organic
foods can be anywhere from
7% to 82% more expensive
than their nonorganic
counterparts.
Availability
The availability of
non-organic food is almost
triple that of organic food.
Jobs
Non-organic food has caused
more than 80 percent of
farmers to lose their jobs
since 1990.
Carbon footprint
Organic food crops mostly
produce less CO2 emissions,
but they also have smaller
yields. Making up the
difference in yield pushes
organic emissions above
non-organic.
Health
Organic foods contain much
lower amounts of added
toxic residues than
traditional foods. However,
they are not totally immune
to them, as they absorb
residues from pollution
present in the environment
or, in some cases, from the
environment.
afford to buy this type of
food, since at least in this
country there is not enough
money for all of us to be able
to consume them from time
to time.
More expensive and better
vs. cheap but without
benefits.
Availability
Availability is scarce, since it
is not in great demand by
people, which reduces the
way to obtain it and
increases the number of
people who need it
(More expensive, healthier)
Produce more vs. produce
more (cheap, with
pesticides).
Jobs
Since it is easier to have
machines that can replace
labor, it is in the best interest
of large companies to save as
much as possible in order to
have more profits.
More expensive food but
supports farmers vs. cheap
food grabbed by machinery.
Carbon footprint
In the carbon footprint, the
dilemma is that the
machinery and its
movements require large
amounts of energy, which
means that having organic
food reduces the carbon
footprint considerably, but it
takes longer to obtain the
product.
of ordinary food so that
anyone can buy it.
Availability
For availability, companies
should implement better
distribution channels so that
this type of food is not
scarce.
Jobs
A combination of work
should be created so that
the machinery and
production can benefit, but
also to support the work of
farmers, otherwise these
people who do hard work
will be affected by the
modernization of
technology.
Carbon footprint
Here they should implement
ways in which they can
reduce their carbon
footprint, such as trying to
change the fuels of the
different machinery or even
putting farmers in different
areas of production.
Health
Here you should definitely
change the chemicals that
are put to various foods as
they affect the health of
several people, so actions
should be implemented to
look like a product of the
other and there are no big
differences for the consumer
to have variety when
choosing what is the
healthiest thing he can eat.
 Slower (no carbon footprint)
vs. faster (large amounts of
carbon footprint).

Health
As far as health is concerned,
it is a fact that organic food
is much healthier because it
has great benefits since it is
grown without any
chemicals, so the other side
of the coin is that even
though it does not have the
same properties as ordinary
food, it is much more
accessible to the normal
public.
Expensive and healthy vs.
cheap and simple.

2. Write 10 new words related to the topic (key words).

● Made from scratch

● Cultivated by hands
● All natural food
● Ready to eat food
● Healthy soul industrialism
● Genetically alter seeds
● Footprint of food transportation
● Genetically engineered nature
● Altered the essence of farming
● Organic and sustainable way of making food