1. Why wasn't it possible to eat apples in the summer in the UK in the past?
2. How do lorries carrying food affect the environment?
3. What impact do planes carrying food have on the environment?
4. Why does the writer mention the transportation of potatoes?
5. What does the writer recommend us to do and why?
Răspunsuri la întrebare
1. This is because the foreign varieties we eat are being stored in a way that prevents them ripening as they are shipped to the UK.
2.Transporting food over long distances also generates great quantities of carbon dioxide emissions. ... By emitting nitrous oxides and particulates, transportation causes air pollution.
3.Cargo ships have the lowest CO2 emissions, with between 15 and 30 grammes per tonne of food per kilometre, followed by trains, cars and lorries. Aeroplanes have the greatest impact.
4.He mentions the transportation of the potatoes because it was an example to show the food products being traveled somewhere else then back again at the place where they were grown.
5.He tells us to buy locally produced food because it's cheap, it's environmentally friendly and it's natural.
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