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BBC - Food as a cultural trait
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- 1How do you define a sit-down meal?It can be a shared social activity if the whole family sits down together to have a conversation.
- 2How about having a picnic at the park?It is a good for the community to come together is at the park, a place where you can socialise.
- 3Why do we waste food?We stock up on food that we don't really need, and we're often tempted by supermarkets to consume more.
- 4How much food do we throw away every year?We throw away 100 million tonnes of food every year.
- 5Where does most of this food end up?Most of this food just ends up rotting in landfill sites and that creates greenhouse gases.
- 6Where does the prblem start?it's a problem that starts long before you get to the dining-room table.
- 7Why is food binned long before it reaches the shelves?Although they are perfectly edible, many types of fruit and vegetables are discarded because of their shape and size.
- 8Why are some fruit and vegetables discarded?Because we often think food that looks good is better quality, while food that doesn’t look good has gone off.
- 9How do you avoid food waste?I try very hard to meal-plan because as a working person and having a busy family, I really try to make sure that there is enough food at the beginning of the week.
- 10What do you think about supermarkets?We all love the convenience, the price and the choice of food that supermarkets offer, but we usually get tempted by the two-for-one offers especially on things that we use.
- 11Do you think we need to produce more food?Although some people struggle to buy even the most basic food, there is enough food for everyone. The problem is all about inefficiency.
- 12What should we do to reverse this worrying trend?We should put into practice apps and websites to distribute excess food, set up food banks, and require restaurants to stop restaurants to stop sending food waste to landfills.
- 13How do we take care of food and water?Globally we are getting worse at wasting water and food that is often still edible.
- 14How much food does not reach our dinner plates?About a quarter of the food we produce worldwide never reaches our dinner plates.
- 15How does food wast occur in richer contries?Being slightly blemished or having imperfections, most fruits and vegetables are discarded, although they are perfectly nutritious to eat.
- 16How does food wast occur in poorer contries?Farms use inefficient farming techniques, which lead to waste.
- 17How do we reverse food waste in developing countries?There needs to be investment in farming to improve things like food storage and packaging for the farming industry.
- 18How do we reverse food waste in richer countries?There needs to consume fruits and vegetables that have imperctions but are perfectly edible.
- 19How do food banks work?They're part of a system where people who are struggling financially are given free food to cook or eat which other people have donated.
- 20Why are there so many people hard-up?I suppose one place to start is the financial crisis of 2008 which made a lot of people redundant.
- 21What do you mean by zero-hours contracts?There are some people on doing part-time work and they don't earn enough money to buy some of the essential things in life
- 22What do food banks do apart from providing food?Some of these food banks also run courses about how to cook well on a low budget.
- 23Do you like tinned ready meals?I can't eat tinned foods because almost all of them contain sugar.
- 24What is an allergy?An allergy is a condition that makes you feel ill after eating, touching or breathing in a particular substance.
- 25Why are there so many people suffering from allergies?In a sterile environment babies don't get exposed to a wide enough variety of bacteria that colonise their guts.
- 26How is food industry marketing?The food industry is now marketing their products to attract consumers who don't have a proven allergy.
- 27Why do people buy expensive free-from food products?Parents have become unnecessarily frightened of our food, spending money to give their children foods with ingredients taken out.
- 28What's the staple food of Brazil?The basic food in Brazil – the staple food – is rice and beans. You can have it with fried eggs, a steak or some salad.
- 29What is a special dish called 'feijoada'?It's a stew made of black beans and with pieces of pork. The main dish is served with side dishes such as fried greens and toasted manioc flour.
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- We discuss about some topics related to food. All phrases presented here were extracted from previous shows of BBC 6 Minute English: Food waste, Global waste: food for thought, Food banks, Are we afraid of food?, Brazilian food
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- Gabriela Paola Ribeiro Banon
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