IELTS Writing Task 2 Food Essay Topics

Position

Agree that the wage should be livable, and disagree that the only tool is a higher shelf price paid by every shopper, including those who already skip meals to buy the cheap range.

Body paragraph 1

Point

A price that cannot cover a living wage is a wage subsidy paid by the picker, not a bargain discovered by the shopper.

Explanation

Someone absorbs the gap. If the contract pushes it down the chain, the absorber is the person on the piece rate, who cannot buy the food they picked. A price that includes the wage is the honest label. Pretending the cheap tin is efficient hides the subsidy.

Example

A piece rate that required a full day of picking to reach an ordinary day’s pay, while the tin stayed on the bottom shelf as a "value" line.

Body paragraph 2

Point

Raising every shelf price, and doing nothing else, taxes the shopper who buys the value line because the rent left nothing over.

Explanation

The extent of disagreement is about the instrument. A buyer at the top of the market can pay. A household on the value line cannot be the only funder. A wage floor enforced on the contract, plus a targeted credit for low-income shoppers, lands the cost nearer the firms and the shoppers who can carry it.

Example

A contract rule that banned sub-living piece rates, funded partly by a smaller margin on premium ranges rather than by the cheapest loaf alone.

Conclusion

Pay the picker a living wage through the contract. Do not fund it solely by raising the only tin a poor shopper buys.

Position

A shared meal is worth protecting a few evenings a week because it is where children hear how the household decides. Expecting it every evening ignores shifts, and the ignore is the unrealistic part.

Body paragraph 1

Point

The table is one of the last times a child hears adults compare a day and divide a task, which a tray in front of a screen does not do.

Explanation

The pro-meal view is not about manners for their own sake. It is about information. A child who never sees a disagreement resolved over food learns the household as a set of closed doors. Even three evenings of the same pan would do that job.

Example

A Wednesday and Sunday supper, phones left in a bowl, where the week’s lifts were actually agreed.

Body paragraph 2

Point

A closing shift, a commute, and a child who eats at five cannot be scolded into a Victorian seven o’clock.

Explanation

The realistic view is a roster. Kitchens that insist on every evening produce guilt and a cold plate, not conversation. The employer who sets the shift is the missing person in the family argument. A flexible definition — whoever is home, a few nights — keeps the point and drops the fantasy.

Example

A parent on a retail close who ate with the children at five on days off and left a note in the lunchbox on the nights she could not.

Conclusion

Keep a few shared evenings. Drop the daily rule. The value is the conversation, and the obstacle is the rota, not a loss of family feeling.

Position

Imports smooth seasons and prices. They also leave the country with a fragile supply and a farming sector that cannot sell the month it was built for.

Body paragraph 1

Point

An imported crop fills the gap when the local season fails or never existed, and it can be cheaper than a greenhouse.

Explanation

Shoppers get variety in months when the field is empty. A bad harvest at home does not empty the shelf if another climate can supply it. That resilience is the advantage, and it is a real one for an island with a short growing season.

Example

Leaf vegetables on the shelf in a late frost, flown or shipped from a region where the crop was in season, at a price the local glasshouse could not match.

Body paragraph 2

Point

A supply that depends on a port, a fuel price and another country’s export ban is not as reliable as the shelf suggests.

Explanation

The disadvantage appears in a crisis, not on an ordinary Tuesday. Local growers who lost the contract for the easy months may no longer exist when the ship does not dock. A country that imports most fresh food has traded a capacity for a price, and the capacity is slow to rebuild.

Example

A growers’ cooperative that ripped out salad crops after three years of being undercut, then could not replant in the season a port strike emptied the imported line.

Conclusion

Import to cover a real seasonal gap. Do not import so much that the local ability to plant that gap disappears.

Position

The main causes are pack sizes that do not match a small household and date labels that people treat as a poison warning. Sell smaller units and teach the difference between a safety date and a quality date.

Body paragraph 1

Point

A person living alone buys a bag sized for a family because the small bag costs almost as much, then bins the rest.

Explanation

The waste is designed by the price per kilo. A date printed as if all dates were safety dates adds a second binning. People are not failing a moral test when they follow the incentives and the wording on the pack.

Example

A single tenant who binned half a loaf and a pot of yoghurt marked with a quality date she had been taught to fear.

Body paragraph 2

Point

Price the small pack fairly, and use two different phrases on the pack so a quality date is not read as a safety date.

Explanation

The solution is at the packer and the retailer, not a campaign that says "be less wasteful" to the tenant. A bakery that sells a half loaf at a fair unit price, and a yoghurt that says "best flavour before" rather than a date that looks like a ban, cuts the bin without a lecture.

Example

A supermarket that priced a half loaf at half the cost plus a small bake charge, and reworded quality dates after a month of checking what was actually binned.

Conclusion

Edible food is binned because the pack and the wording tell people to bin it. Change those. The household will follow.

Position

Ready meals fit an evening with no time between the door and bedtime. Children learn less about a pan if they never see one used, and they still learn if someone cooks beside them on the nights the tray stays in the freezer.

Body paragraph 1

Point

A ready meal is an answer to a clock: a tired adult, a hungry child, and a kitchen that would otherwise open at 8 p.m.

Explanation

The skill of cooking did not vanish first. The time did. A product that is hot in six minutes wins against a recipe that needs forty and a shop that shut before the commute ended. Price and fatigue do the rest.

Example

A parent off a bus at 6.40 who could heat a tray before a child’s bedtime and could not start a stew.

Body paragraph 2

Point

Children learn the pan by standing next to it, so a week with no pan is a week with no lesson, whatever the packet says about food.

Explanation

The change is real and not total. Two evenings of cooking the same simple dish teach more than a poster about skills. A household that never opens a raw ingredient teaches that dinner is a dial. The ready meal is the substitute for the lesson only on the nights it replaces, which is why frequency matters.

Example

A Sunday onion-and-egg dish cooked with a child, set against four weeknights of trays, which still left her able to feed herself in a student flat.

Conclusion

The tray won on time. It blocks the lesson only when it becomes the only dinner. Keep a regular exception and the skill has somewhere to sit.

Position

Positive for safety, price and a shopper who moves town. Negative when the identical range is the reason a local processor and a seasonal food disappear from the only shop in a small town.

Body paragraph 1

Point

A shared range means a known allergen label, a known price, and a product a family can buy after they move.

Explanation

That consistency is a gain for people who do not have time to investigate a new brand, and for a recall that has to work everywhere. The development is positive in the narrow sense of a reliable staple. Bread, milk and a labelled sauce are not a culture that needed to be different in every town.

Example

A family who moved regions and could still read the allergen panel on the same sauce, rather than guessing at an unlabelled local jar.

Body paragraph 2

Point

The identical range pushes out the local processor whose food does not fit the national planogram.

Explanation

A small town’s only shop, once it becomes a national store, stops taking the orchard’s variety or the dairy’s bottle because the shelf plan is drawn elsewhere. The negative development is the lost buyer, not the existence of a branded sauce. Seasonal food with nowhere to be sold stops being grown.

Example

An orchard that lost the weekly order when the independent grocer became a chain branch and the shelf plan had no slot for that apple.

Conclusion

Standard staples are a positive development. A national shelf that deletes the local product from the only shop in town is not.