Integrated Writing Directions - 2

Now listen to portable lecture on the topic you just wrote about.

W: I want to clear up a little debate that’s been going on recently. You’ve all probably noticed the appearance of organic fruits and vegetables in supermarkets, right?

Well, People tend to believe that organic produce is healthier than traditionally grown produce.

After all, that’s why they purchased them. However, contrary to popular opinion, traditionally grown produce isn’t any less healthy than organic produce is.

There’s this common belief that the chemicals used on traditionally grown produce are harmful to us, but in reality, your typical vegetable or piece of fruit in a supermarket contains just a tiny amount of chemicals.

Produce is always wash before going to the market, and then it’s washed again when it’s put on the shelves.

On top of that, most people wash their fruits and vegetables before they eat them, too. All of this washing, it removes pretty much all of the chemicals that you might find on produce.

And even if the produce wasn’t washed all of these times, it would still probably be OK for you to eat – see, these chemicals haven’t even been shown to be harmful to humans in huge doses.

Either way, you’re not likely to ingest harmful chemicals from traditionally grown produce.

In addition, in order to protect the environment from being negatively affected by these chemicals, there are lots of laws that limit the type and amount of chemicals that can be used on produce.

In fact, really strict laws will penalize farmers if they happen to pollute any water sources with their chemicals.

There are also very few recorded instances of agricultural pollution and, in general, farmers are extremely careful with this kind of thing.

The concerns about chemical pollution are understandable, but they’re not very likely to occur.

Finally, the chemicals of traditionally grown produce don’t have much of an effect on the environment around them.

They are designed to target only specific weeds and insects, not other plants and animals in the area.

Studies have even been performed which have proven that these chemicals are not that harmful to the surrounding ecosystems.

Now I will admit that farms that are not managed properly can have a huge impact on the surrounding areas, but this goes for organic and traditional farms alike.

The chemicals themselves really don’t make a farms environmental impact any worse at all.

When you look at all of the factors involved, you’ll realize that the chemicals used on traditionally grown produce are virtually harmless to all but certain pests.

So, the next time that you’re all out shopping for food, don’t worry about choosing traditionally grown produce over organic produce. They’re both just as good.