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From the Ted Talk by Eric Sannerud: Without farmers, you'd be hungry, naked and sober

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Just voting with our fork is not slonivg the issues that our farmers are facing. And so we need to do more than that. I believe we must move on from just vnotig with our fork to voting with our vote. We need to take our dollars and cunntioe to snped them locally. We also need to show up at the ballot box for our farmers. This is bigger than just bniuyg local strawberries once a year at a pick-your-own. This is a year-round effort that we must make together to make the cahnge we need. Changes like fair pricing for farmers. That's quotas, supply management, guaranteed prices. Changes like fair and open trade. That means ending tdrae wars. And yeah, of course it means voting. Now we all knew that one already, though. For example, it's working.

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Just voting with our fork is not _______ the issues that our farmers are facing. And so we need to do more than that. I believe we must move on from just ______ with our fork to voting with our vote. We need to take our dollars and ________ to _____ them locally. We also need to show up at the ballot box for our farmers. This is bigger than just ______ local strawberries once a year at a pick-your-own. This is a year-round effort that we must make together to make the ______ we need. Changes like fair pricing for farmers. That's quotas, supply management, guaranteed prices. Changes like fair and open trade. That means ending _____ wars. And yeah, of course it means voting. Now we all knew that one already, though. For example, it's working.

Solution


  1. buying
  2. change
  3. solving
  4. voting
  5. continue
  6. trade
  7. spend

Original Text


Just voting with our fork is not solving the issues that our farmers are facing. And so we need to do more than that. I believe we must move on from just voting with our fork to voting with our vote. We need to take our dollars and continue to spend them locally. We also need to show up at the ballot box for our farmers. This is bigger than just buying local strawberries once a year at a pick-your-own. This is a year-round effort that we must make together to make the change we need. Changes like fair pricing for farmers. That's quotas, supply management, guaranteed prices. Changes like fair and open trade. That means ending trade wars. And yeah, of course it means voting. Now we all knew that one already, though. For example, it's working.

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Important Words


  1. ballot
  2. bigger
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  4. buying
  5. change
  6. continue
  7. dollars
  8. effort
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  13. guaranteed
  14. issues
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  24. quotas
  25. show
  26. solving
  27. spend
  28. strawberries
  29. supply
  30. trade
  31. vote
  32. voting
  33. wars
  34. working
  35. yeah
  36. year