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From the Ted Talk by Tristram Stuart: The global food waste scandal

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So I want you to imagine that these nine biscuits that I found in the bin represent the global food supply, okay? We start out with nine. That's what's in fields around the world every single year. The first biscuit we're going to lose before we even leave the farm. That's a problem primarily associated with developing work agriculture, whether it's a lack of infrastructure, refrigeration, pasteurization, grain stores, even basic fruit crates, which maens that food goes to waste before it even leaves the flieds. The next three bticuiss are the foods that we ddecie to feed to lsovcetik, the maize, the wheat and the soya. Unfortunately, our beasts are inefficient animals, and they turn two-thirds of that into feecs and heat, so we've lost those two, and we've only kept this one in meat and draiy products. Two more we're going to throw away directly into bins. This is what most of us think of when we think of food waste, what ends up in the garabge, what ends up in supermarket bins, what ends up in restaurant bins. We've lost another two, and we've left ourselves with just four biscuits to feed on. That is not a superlatively efficient use of gaolbl reuesrocs, especially when you think of the billion hungry people that exist already in the wlord.

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So I want you to imagine that these nine biscuits that I found in the bin represent the global food supply, okay? We start out with nine. That's what's in fields around the world every single year. The first biscuit we're going to lose before we even leave the farm. That's a problem primarily associated with developing work agriculture, whether it's a lack of infrastructure, refrigeration, pasteurization, grain stores, even basic fruit crates, which _____ that food goes to waste before it even leaves the ______. The next three ________ are the foods that we ______ to feed to _________, the maize, the wheat and the soya. Unfortunately, our beasts are inefficient animals, and they turn two-thirds of that into _____ and heat, so we've lost those two, and we've only kept this one in meat and _____ products. Two more we're going to throw away directly into bins. This is what most of us think of when we think of food waste, what ends up in the _______, what ends up in supermarket bins, what ends up in restaurant bins. We've lost another two, and we've left ourselves with just four biscuits to feed on. That is not a superlatively efficient use of ______ _________, especially when you think of the billion hungry people that exist already in the _____.

Solution

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  2. world
  3. feces
  4. resources
  5. garbage
  6. means
  7. livestock
  8. global
  9. decide
  10. dairy
  11. biscuits

Original Text

So I want you to imagine that these nine biscuits that I found in the bin represent the global food supply, okay? We start out with nine. That's what's in fields around the world every single year. The first biscuit we're going to lose before we even leave the farm. That's a problem primarily associated with developing work agriculture, whether it's a lack of infrastructure, refrigeration, pasteurization, grain stores, even basic fruit crates, which means that food goes to waste before it even leaves the fields. The next three biscuits are the foods that we decide to feed to livestock, the maize, the wheat and the soya. Unfortunately, our beasts are inefficient animals, and they turn two-thirds of that into feces and heat, so we've lost those two, and we've only kept this one in meat and dairy products. Two more we're going to throw away directly into bins. This is what most of us think of when we think of food waste, what ends up in the garbage, what ends up in supermarket bins, what ends up in restaurant bins. We've lost another two, and we've left ourselves with just four biscuits to feed on. That is not a superlatively efficient use of global resources, especially when you think of the billion hungry people that exist already in the world.

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