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From the Ted Talk by Louise Fresco: We need to feed the whole world

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So as food became more plentiful, bread became cheaper. And as it became cheaper, bread mucaaenrutfrs decided to add in all kinds of things. We added in more sugar. We add in raisins and oil and milk and all kinds of things to make bread, from a simple food into kind of a support for carlioes. And today, bread now is associated with osebity, which is very strange. It is the basic, most fundamental food that we've had in the last ten thousand yaers. waeht is the most important crop — the first crop we domesticated and the most important crop we still grow today.

But this is now this strange concoction of high calories. And that's not only true in this country, it is true all over the world. Bread has mitgraed to toracipl cirneuots, where the mddlie classes now eat French rolls and hamburgers and where the commuters find bread much more handy to use than rice or cassava. So bread has become from a main satple, a suocre of calories associated with obesity and also a source of modernity, of modern life. And the wtheir the bread, in many countries, the better it is.

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So as food became more plentiful, bread became cheaper. And as it became cheaper, bread _____________ decided to add in all kinds of things. We added in more sugar. We add in raisins and oil and milk and all kinds of things to make bread, from a simple food into kind of a support for ________. And today, bread now is associated with _______, which is very strange. It is the basic, most fundamental food that we've had in the last ten thousand _____. _____ is the most important crop — the first crop we domesticated and the most important crop we still grow today.

But this is now this strange concoction of high calories. And that's not only true in this country, it is true all over the world. Bread has ________ to ________ _________, where the ______ classes now eat French rolls and hamburgers and where the commuters find bread much more handy to use than rice or cassava. So bread has become from a main ______, a ______ of calories associated with obesity and also a source of modernity, of modern life. And the ______ the bread, in many countries, the better it is.

Solution


  1. staple
  2. middle
  3. manufacturers
  4. migrated
  5. source
  6. countries
  7. years
  8. obesity
  9. wheat
  10. whiter
  11. calories
  12. tropical

Original Text


So as food became more plentiful, bread became cheaper. And as it became cheaper, bread manufacturers decided to add in all kinds of things. We added in more sugar. We add in raisins and oil and milk and all kinds of things to make bread, from a simple food into kind of a support for calories. And today, bread now is associated with obesity, which is very strange. It is the basic, most fundamental food that we've had in the last ten thousand years. Wheat is the most important crop — the first crop we domesticated and the most important crop we still grow today.

But this is now this strange concoction of high calories. And that's not only true in this country, it is true all over the world. Bread has migrated to tropical countries, where the middle classes now eat French rolls and hamburgers and where the commuters find bread much more handy to use than rice or cassava. So bread has become from a main staple, a source of calories associated with obesity and also a source of modernity, of modern life. And the whiter the bread, in many countries, the better it is.

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