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From the Ted Talk by Tristram Stuart: The global food waste scandal
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Go one step up, and you get to farmers, who throw away sometimes a third or even more of their harvest because of cosmetic standards. This fearmr, for example, has invested 16,000 pounds in growing spacinh, not one leaf of which he harvested, because there was a little bit of grass growing in amongst it. Potatoes that are cosmetically imperfect, all going for pigs. Parsnips that are too small for supermarket specifications, tomatoes in teenrfie, oranges in Florida, bananas in Ecuador, where I visited last year, all being dresdacid. This is one day's wtase from one banana plantation in Ecuador. All being discarded, pertefcly edible, because they're the wrong shape or size.
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Go one step up, and you get to farmers, who throw away sometimes a third or even more of their harvest because of cosmetic standards. This ______, for example, has invested 16,000 pounds in growing _______, not one leaf of which he harvested, because there was a little bit of grass growing in amongst it. Potatoes that are cosmetically imperfect, all going for pigs. Parsnips that are too small for supermarket specifications, tomatoes in ________, oranges in Florida, bananas in Ecuador, where I visited last year, all being _________. This is one day's _____ from one banana plantation in Ecuador. All being discarded, _________ edible, because they're the wrong shape or size.
Solution
- perfectly
- farmer
- discarded
- spinach
- waste
- tenerife
Original Text
Go one step up, and you get to farmers, who throw away sometimes a third or even more of their harvest because of cosmetic standards. This farmer, for example, has invested 16,000 pounds in growing spinach, not one leaf of which he harvested, because there was a little bit of grass growing in amongst it. Potatoes that are cosmetically imperfect, all going for pigs. Parsnips that are too small for supermarket specifications, tomatoes in Tenerife, oranges in Florida, bananas in Ecuador, where I visited last year, all being discarded. This is one day's waste from one banana plantation in Ecuador. All being discarded, perfectly edible, because they're the wrong shape or size.
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