Tugas 2
Tugas 2
Tugas 2
TUGAS 2 part 1
1. Read the text and answer the question!
Food
While eating at a restaurant is an enjoyable and convenient occasional treat, most individuals
and families prepare their meals at home. To make breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily, these
persons must have the required foods and ingredients on hand and ready to go; foods and
ingredients are typically purchased from a grocery store, or an establishment that distributes
foods, drinks, household products, and other items that're used by the typical consumer.
Produce, or the term used to describe fresh fruits and vegetables, is commonly purchased
by grocery store shoppers. In terms of fruit, most grocery stores offer bananas, apples,
oranges, blackberries, raspberries, grapes, pineapples, cantaloupes, watermelons, and more;
other grocery stores with larger produce selections might offer the listed fruits in addition to
less common fruits, including mangoes, honeydews, starfruits, coconuts, and more.
Depending on the grocery store, customers can purchase fruits in a few different ways. Some
stores will charge a set amount per pound of fruit, and will weigh customers' fruit purchases
and bill them accordingly; other stores will charge customers for each piece of fruit they buy,
or for bundles of fruit (a bag of bananas, a bag of apples, etc.); other stores yet will simply
charge by the container.
B. TUGAS 2 Part 2
1. Read the text and Answer the Questions!
Recently, campaigners have encouraged us to buy local food. This reduces ‘food miles’,
that is, the distance food travels to get from the producer to the retailer. They reason that the
higher the food miles, the more carbon emissions. Buying local food, therefore, has a lower
carbon footprint and is more environmentally friendly.
However, the real story is not as simple as that. If our aim is to reduce carbon emissions,
we must look at the whole farming process, not just transportation. According to a 2008 study,
only 11% of carbon emissions in the food production process result from transportation, and only
4% originated from the final delivery of the product from the producer to the retailer. Other
processes, including fertilization, storage, heating and irrigation, contribute much more.
In fact, imported food often has a lower carbon footprint than locally grown food. Take
apples, for example. In autumn, when apples are harvested, the best option for a British resident
is to buy British apples. However, the apples we buy in winter or spring have been kept
refrigerated for months, and this uses up a lot of energy. In spring, therefore, it is more energy-
efficient to import them from New Zealand, where they are in season. Heating also uses a lot of
energy, which is why growing tomatoes in heated greenhouses in the UK is less environmentally
friendly than importing them from Spain, where the crop grows well in the local climate.
We must also take into account the type of transport. Transporting food by air creates
about 50 times more emissions than shipping it. However, only a small proportion of goods are
flown to the consumer country, and these are usually high value, perishable items which we
cannot produce locally, such as seafood and out-of-season berries. Even then, these foods may
not have a higher carbon footprint than locally grown food. For example, beans flown in from
Kenya are grown in sunny fields using manual labor and natural fertilizers, unlike in Britain,
where we use oil-based fertilizers and diesel machinery. Therefore, the total carbon footprint is
still lower.
It’s also worth remembering that a product’s journey does not end at the supermarket. The
distance consumers travel to buy their food, and the kind of transport they use will also add to its
carbon footprint. So driving a long way to shop for food will negate any environmental benefits
of buying locally grown produce. Furthermore, choosing local over imported food can also badly
affect people in developing countries. Many of them work in agriculture because they have no
other choice. If they are unable to sell produce overseas, they will have less income to buy food,
clothes, medicine and to educate their children.
Recently, some supermarkets have been trying to raise awareness of food miles by
labelling foods with stickers that show it has been imported by air. But ultimately, the message
this gives is too simple. Lots of different factors contribute to a food’s carbon footprint besides
the distance it has travelled. And even if we only buy local food which is currently in season,
there are ethical implications. What’s more, our diets would be more limited.
2. Answer these questions below!
No Word Meaning
1. Less income :
2. Encouraged :
3. Food production :
process
4. Fertilization :
5. Badly effect :
6. Labelling food :
7. Sunny fields :
8. Perishable items :
9. Season :
10. Seafood :