Organic Produce
What is organic produce?
It’s produce cultivated without herbicides and pesticides. Although they take more time to ripe (to get fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used), they are better to your health.
Note that the spelling of the verb "to produce" and the noun "produce" is the same, but the pronunciation is different.
TO PRODUCE (verb) /prəˈdus/ to make or grow something, especially in large quantities and in order to be sold
PRODUCE (noun) /ˈproʊˌdus/ fruit, vegetables, and other things that farmers grow.
Why should I buy organic produce?
Because many scientists believe that chemicals (like herbicides and pesticides) can cause cancer. Organic produce doesn’t use chemicals, what’s more, they don’t pollute the environment.
Why organic produce is good for health?
Because it respects you and your environment. When you eat some organic produce, like a fruit or vegetable, not only your body feels better and clean but your mind too, because you are helping the environment. The chemicals won’t pollute rivers and kill animals like fish or birds. When you disagree (with the current eating habits) and don’t buy regular produce you start a change in your life!
Why organic produce are more expensive?
They're more expensive because:
They're more expensive because:
- You can’t grow as much produce as other farmers;
- The farmers who plant this kind of produce are, usually, smaller farmers;
- The produce has to arrive at the store very soon after it’s picked.
Vocabulary:
to squash (verb): to damage something by pressing or crushing it and making it lose its normal shape.
If only I buy organic produce will it change the world?
First of all, it’ll change your health, your body, so will change your life, changing yours, you also can change the lives of the ones near you! It’s a beginning. Somehow, it also changes the environment. You won’t kill, indirectly, some animals and you’ll be proud of yourself! It doesn’t change the world, but make your part and question up more the things, sometimes (almost every time) what you think, in reality,it isn’t!
by Wagner de Barros
Barone English's student ( level 2)