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From the Ted Talk by Mohammad Modarres: Why you should shop at your local farmers market

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Produce from a lgare retail store is hsvetraed before it's ripe to travel more than a thousand miels before it ultimately sits on your shelf roughly two weeks later. Alternatively, because most farmers markets have proximity and production requirements, farmers travel less than 50 miles to offer you local pruocde with minimal packaging waste. With the aendvt of online grocers and trending meal kits, consumers are irsagennlicy disconnected with their farmers and the economics of food production. Since the rise of the smartphone revolution, direct-to-consumer godos have stagnated.

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Produce from a _____ retail store is _________ before it's ripe to travel more than a thousand _____ before it ultimately sits on your shelf roughly two weeks later. Alternatively, because most farmers markets have proximity and production requirements, farmers travel less than 50 miles to offer you local _______ with minimal packaging waste. With the ______ of online grocers and trending meal kits, consumers are ____________ disconnected with their farmers and the economics of food production. Since the rise of the smartphone revolution, direct-to-consumer _____ have stagnated.

Solution

  1. large
  2. harvested
  3. miles
  4. advent
  5. goods
  6. increasingly
  7. produce

Original Text

Produce from a large retail store is harvested before it's ripe to travel more than a thousand miles before it ultimately sits on your shelf roughly two weeks later. Alternatively, because most farmers markets have proximity and production requirements, farmers travel less than 50 miles to offer you local produce with minimal packaging waste. With the advent of online grocers and trending meal kits, consumers are increasingly disconnected with their farmers and the economics of food production. Since the rise of the smartphone revolution, direct-to-consumer goods have stagnated.

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