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Monica要幫媽媽買菜準備招待客人,購物清單裏包括了有機食品,Monica從媽媽那裏了解到什麼是有機食品。

Monica: Hey Mom, I’m heading to the store. Do you want anything?

Mom: Sure, I could use a few things. Could you pick me up a couple carrots, a bag of potatoes, some green onions…

Monica: Whoa whoa whoa, hold your horses there Mom! Let me get some paper.

Mom: Sorry. I guess I need more than just a few things.

Monica: No kidding! Alright. Paper, pen, and…go!

Mom: Okay, the carrots, potatoes, and green onions like I said. Then, about three or four sweet peppers, roughly half a kilo of chicken wings, a few heads of garlic, and two or three 1)eggplants.

Monica: Jeeze Louise Mom, are you feeding an army here?

Mom: You could say that. Your grandma’s in town this weekend, so the whole family’s going to be at ours for dinner on Sunday.

Monica: Awesome! ①I haven’t seen Gran in a coon’s age. I’ll give you a hand with cooking if you need.

Mom: It would be great if you 2)pitched in. Thanks!

Monica: No problem, Mom. Anyway, ②I’m off.

Mom: Okay, see you…oh Monica, wait!

Monica: Yup?

Mom: Make sure you buy organic. If you can’t find organic, give me a call and we’ll change the game plan.

Monica: Is it really that important?

Mom: Definitely.

Monica: You know, I don’t even know what that is: organic. What does that actually mean?

Mom: ③At the root, it basically just means that no chemicals were used in the process of growing this thing you’re about to stuff your face with.

Monica: Chemicals? What chemicals?

Mom: Oh like fertilizers and 3)pesticides for crops or growth 4)hormones and 5)antibiotics for livestock.

Monica: But don’t they kind of need that stuff? I mean, what if the cows get sick? It’s just: too bad, so sad—see you later Betsy? That seems a little harsh.