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Countries should produce the food that their population eat and import as little as possible

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IELTS Essay Question:

Countries should produce the food that their population eat, and import as little as possible.

To what extend do you agree or disagree? Give reasons, examples to your answer

Answer:

Some of the food in every country today produced miles away from where it is sold and consumed. This trend requires significant amount of fuel for transportation and storage, resulting to environmental pollution generated from bulk shipping. I strongly agree that each country should source food locally and control food importations.

It is apparent that locally produced food does not need to be transported from which countries it was grown to someone’s dinner table. In this particular arrangement, governments are not putting at risk the health of its people by importing foods from far distance huge factory farms. Firstly, imported foodstuffs contains more harmful preservatives and hazardous chemicals added on perishable crops in order to keep it fresh during transit.  Secondly, the economic impact matter most when someone buy a locally produced foods. The farmers from that locality will takes homes the total amount and tend to spend for the salary of local workers.  As a result, consumer spending will increase in that community, resulting to a robust economic activities in that area.

Contrastingly, there are several reasons why governments importing foods from other countries, one of which is to give its citizen more variety to choice from. To give you an example, every country has different climate and not all sorts of fruits and vegetables grown throughout the year. Because of imported foods, people from dry places can have fresh oranges, bananas, lettuce or potatoes anytime they want. However, government must impose stiffer charges on importation of food which is abundant in that locality. The Philippines, for instance, this country is blessed with vast rice plains and rainfalls and still importing rice from neighboring countries. The government should spend on research and development on how to expand rice plantation coverage to support the growing demand of rice consumption and not to rely heavily on importations.

In conclusion, when foods are sourced locally there are tendency that foods contain no preservative and pesticide since these will only be sold in a nearby places. In addition, governments should put off or control importation of foods that can be grown or raised in their respective country to strengthens local economy.

Vocabulary

  • Significant
  • Preservative
  • Perishable
  • Impact
  • Robust
  • Impose
  • Restriction
  • Abundant
  • Vast
  • Plain
  • Pesticide

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