WATCH THE VIDEOS AND FILL IN THE TEXTS WITH THE MISSING WORDS.

Video 1: Freegans take green to extreme

	trash economic planet reuse anti-consumer disgusting bacteria carbon footprint

a) Fill in the text with the words in the box.

b) Discuss:

- what do you think about freeganism ?

- would you be ready to try it ? why/why not ?

Video 2: Locavores trend takes root

a) Fill in the text with the words in the box.

Locavorism means that everything you eat has to be ……………………………. no more than 100 miles away from home. Here are a few examples : a local lettuce has travelled around ………………….. miles before ending up in your plate, whereas a supermarket lettuce will have travelled ……………………….miles. A local tomato ……………….miles, and a supermarket tomato ………………………miles.

What are the benefits of eating local?

You don’t have the starches, the………………………………, the hidden ……………………..and salts. The family lost………………………, because there is no local………………………., no local bread. They only use local rice …………………………that they mill themselves to make tortillas.

One should not forget that how the food travels is also important. A tractor trailer traveling only a few hundred miles may be more ………………………….to the environment than a train load of potatoes traveling a thousand miles.

b) Discuss:

- do you pay attention to where your food comes from when you buy

groceries ?

- do you sometimes buy food at a market or do you always go to the

supermarket ?

- what is a disadvantage of not buying foreign products ?

ANSWERS:

Freegans take Green to Extreme

Freeganism is an anti-consumer culture group. They dumpster-dive, which means they find what they need in the trash. Why do they do that ? Not necessarily out of an economic necessity. They reuse the stuff because they don’t want to contribute to the corporations that are destroying the planet.

They are not homeless, they don’t do it out of necessity. Rather, want they want, is to reduce their carbon footprint. They find everything they need in the trash.

Some people would never want to try it, for example because they are afraid of bacteria or because of the preconceived ideas we have about homeless people. One can feel repulsion, find it disgusting.

- what do you think about it ?

- would you be ready to try it ? why/why not ?

Locavores Trend takes root

Locavorism means that everything you eat has to be harvested no more than 100 miles away from home. Here are a few examples : a local lettuce has travelled around 40 miles before ending up in your plate, whereas a supermarket lettuce will have travelled 1800 miles. A local tomato 60 miles, and a supermarket tomato 1600 miles.

What are the benefits of eating local?

You don’t have the starches, the sugars, the hidden fats and salts. The family lost weight, because there is no local wheat, no local bread. They only use local rice flour that they mill themselves to make tortillas.

One should not forget that how the food travels is also important. A tractor trailer traveling only a few hundred miles may be more damaging to the environment than a train load of potatoes traveling a thousand miles.

You want to become a locavore? You can just check your local farmer’s market, no need to go to the extreme.

Date: 2015-04-20; view: 937