Where Does Our Food Come From?

🌍Mission Brief #23

Our food comes from many places.

🎯 Your mission

Trade-offs everywhere — find them.

⚡ The twist

Cheap for you usually means expensive for someone else.

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Mind = Blown

🤯 The first ATM was installed in 1967 — and used radioactive ink.

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Then & Now

💱 Every receipt you've ever seen has this idea inside it.

Our food comes from many places. Some food grows on farms, like fruits and vegetables. Other food comes from animals, like milk and eggs. Farmers work hard to grow and raise our food. Knowing where food comes from helps us appreciate it more.

Key Facts

Food can grow on farms.

Some food comes from animals.

Farmers help grow our food.

Check Your Understanding

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Where does some food grow?

How sure are you going to be?😐 maybe

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Why this still matters

The next time you spend $1, ask: who else benefited besides you?

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Track every dollar you spend or get this week. Then figure out the pattern.

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For the dinner table

“If you had $20 to start a business, what would you sell?”

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