Today much of the food people eat gets transported from farms that are thousands of miles away. Some people believe it would be better for the environment and the economy if people only consumed food produced by local farmers.
Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?
翻译 ：现如今，人们餐桌上的食物很多都是从千里之外的农场运输而来。一些人认为，人们只食用当地农民生产的粮食农作物，会对环境和经济产生更有利的影响。
你认为这件事是否利大于弊？
话题：社会类
类型： 利弊分析
解析：雅思写作考题中有题干偏长的，有偏短的，这道题目就属于题干偏长。对于题干偏短的题目，难点一般是在题干中的句子逻辑或者是词汇理解。而对于这种题干偏长的题目，难点就在于不要漏点（cover all the points that are presented in the prompt）。题干中往往含有多个关键词，大家一定要注意把题干中所有关键词都找到，在书写的过程中要把所有关键词都考虑在内。
我们来划一下这个题目中的关键词：
Today much of the food people eat gets transported from farms that are thousands of miles away. Some people believe it would be better for the environment and the economy if people only consumed food produced by local farmers.
我们看上面标红的这些关键词，本题是对比：人们购买使用需要远程运输的食物和本地食物之间的差别， 在探讨好处弊端的时候，一定要涵盖到对于环境和经济的利弊。
如果只讨论了远程运输的食物和本地食物的利弊，但是漏掉了环境或者经济，你可能会被认定成You have not covered all the parts of the question.在任务回应部分被扣掉分数。
审清题目我们再来一起看一看可以书写的一些观点：
The New York Times 曾有一篇叫做 ‘Environmental Cost of Shipping Groceries Around the World’ 的报道。
我很喜欢报道中的一段文字，很好的描绘了全球化之下人们餐桌上的食物状态：
Cod caught off Norway is shipped to Vietnam to be turned into filets, then shipped back to Norway for sale. Argentine lemons fill supermarket shelves on the Citrus Coast of Spain, as local lemons rot on the ground. Half of Europe’s peas are grown and packaged in Kenya.
（从挪威捕获的鳕鱼被运到越南加工成鱼片，然后运回挪威出售。阿根廷生产的柠檬填满了西班牙海岸的超市货架，而当地柠檬在地面上腐烂。欧洲一半的豌豆是在肯尼亚种植和包装的。- 此段中，挪威鳕鱼，阿根廷柠檬，肯尼亚豌豆大家都可以用作自己文章中做举例）
全球食物的自由快速运输，丰富了人们的餐桌选择，提高了人们的生活品质，但这的确是建立在很大的代价之上，其中一个就是污染问题（pollution）。
长途大量运输会耗费大量的燃料This long-distance, large-scale transportation of food consumes large quantities of fossil fuels.燃料燃烧势必会产生有害气体，尤其是二氧化碳（especially carbon dioxide, the main global warming gas from transporting the food.）
一般空运产生的污染会比海运严重，但空运高效快速，很多食品运输需要保证新鲜都会采用空运，更不用提货物到港后还要进行道路运输，轨道运输等等。而这些污染也会对人体产生重大影响。
Air pollutions is considered to be the most dangerous environmental threat caused by transportation. Highway vehicles, marine engines, trains and planes are the main causes of pollution which affects air quality causing damage to human health. All these toxic air pollutant are closely related with the cause of cancer, cardiovascular, respiratory and neurological diseases（这几种疾病里大家至少练会cancer和respiratory diseases的拼法，应对我们写作考试储备几种常见疾病的写法还是很有必要的，用于很多文章中的论证。另外 respiratory diseases- 呼吸系统疾病是很多雅思阅读文章中出现的词汇，记住帮助理解阅读）。
那么环境问题好理解，而采购当地食物，又会对当地经济产生什么样的影响呢？
首先，你的钱不是交给了跨国/跨地区的供应商，而是给了当地的农户，店主等，支持了当地的中小型企业主，让资金在当地运转起来。
（It Keeps Money in Your Community: Instead of supporting large supermarket chains, you can support individuals in your own community and help them prosper.）
本地的农民往往不像一些大型的全国或者跨国连锁，拥有强大的交通网或分销渠道，购买当地食品等于帮助很多中小型农场生存。
（Because local farmers don’t have the same transportation and distribution costs as large agricultural businesses, they can retain more of the profits from their sales. This helps small farming businesses become more successful as more people purchase from them.）
当然不得不提的是，很多时候食品出口也是很多农场生存的方式，如果打击食品出口或食品运输对于他们影响也是不小。
好啦，分析了这么多咱们看看范文：
These days food often travels many miles as farmers export their food around the world to satisfy consumer demand. Although some people think stopping this practice（代指前句，出口食物） would benefit the economy and the environment, I believe that the negative impacts would not justify such a change.（此句可套用，Although some people think this practice would be harmful, I believe that the negative impacts would not justify …）
(开头段：两句话-背景介绍+给出观点，给出观点依然使用让步状语从句)
The benefits of stopping the export of food are twofold（形容词-双重的）. In relation to the environment,transporting food involves the use of thousands of lorries and many flights, which contributes to pollution given all the emissions this must produce everyday.（句子写的真好，动词involve/contribute to 用的好，非限定从及given用的也好。Given = if you consider 如果考虑到，given that 鉴于、考虑到，如果……） This negatively affects people’s health and also may be leading to global warming. In addition to this, stopping the practice will mean that people then only buy local food, leading to a boost to local economies as farmers will become profitable（形容词-赚钱的，盈利的） as they sell more.
（不再进口食物的好处- 环境方面+经济方面）
However, there are downsides to this. A problem is that these days many countries, particularly developing countries, rely on exports of their produce. Countries often have acres（英亩-衡量土地面积的单位） and acres of plantations and crops that are only sold to foreign markets, and this provides an income to the farmers but it also provides work for thousands of local people around the world working on farms. Furthermore, people these days have become dependent on ingredients from other countries and without it people could no longer cook or eat many of their favourite recipes and many restaurants that depend on food exports may go out of business.
（国际间食品进出口的好处- 对当地农民，农场员工及人民生活）
On balance, I therefore believe that the advantages do not outweigh the disadvantages. Despite the fact that it may improve the environment, the negative economic impacts on farmers who export and their employees and the further impacts on food choices and restaurants would be too detrimental.
（结尾总结：第二句话总结了上面弊端段提及的三个点- 开头的让步状从使用Although，结尾的让步状从使用Despite ）
这篇文章全面回应了题目的要求：
写出了长途运输食物及本土购买食物的好处及弊端，且好处及弊端围绕着环境问题与经济影响来探讨。
环境及经济两个点在主体1段很清晰，在主体2段中，农民出口，失业率及餐厅倒闭也属于经济发展范畴，因为环境影响不大而没有探讨环境。
文章中也使用了sufficient and accurate的词汇及some good phrases。
