Where Does Our Food Come From?

🌍Mission Brief #53

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

💱 This is happening in your local store every single day.

Our food comes from many places. Some food grows in gardens and farms. Farmers work hard to grow fruits and vegetables. Other food comes from animals, like milk and eggs. After food is made, it travels to stores. We buy it to eat at home. Food is important for our health.

Key Facts

Food can grow in gardens and farms.

Farmers help grow fruits and vegetables.

Some food comes from animals.

Check Your Understanding

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Where does some food grow?

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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.

Find two products that look similar but cost very different. Why?

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For the dinner table

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

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