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Culture exchange School food in Australia In Australian schools, there is sometimes a (a) , a room where you can eat. This is a place where students can buy something for lunch, like a simple restaurant. It isn’t always cheap, but you can choose what you want. If you’re hungry, you can buy a warm (b) , like a meat pie with vegetables, or lasagne. Meat is popular in Australia and the most popular national (c) are lamb or barbecued sausages. They often sell (d) like burgers, pizzas, kebabs or nachos, too. If you prefer something light you can just pick up a simple (e) like a sandwich, for example. There are always a variety of (f) like fruit salad, cakes or ice cream. At Australian schools they usually eat just two courses. They don’t usually have a (g) , something light to begin the meal. Other Australian students take a (h) to school, which their parents usually prepare. They take it in a box. Because of the good weather, it’s popular to eat outside. There are usually lots of water fountains around the school, which they call ‘bubblers’. There are often (i) , too. These sell drinks or packaged food, but in theory they don’t sell unhealthy products. Collaborative project 2 page 57
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When you go out next weekend, will you go for a burger? Maybe you should rethink your plans. A recent study by the EAT-Lancet Commission says that in the future we will need to reduce our consumption of red meat, in Europe by 77% and in the US by 84%. Expert Marco Springmann says we will need to reduce it by 90%or global warming is going to get out of control. So what’s the connection between eating meat and saving the planet? According to theWater Footprint Network report (2010), to produce one kilo of beef, it takes 15,145 litres of water. You also need 28 calories of cereals for every calorie of meat produced for human consumption. So to growmore food for animals, some farmers are cutting down rainforests. This automatically speeds up global warming. And the methane and nitrous oxide emissions from the cows themselves are also speeding the process up. Another big worry is that there is not enough land to feed the world. Right now, there are about seven billion people on Earth. To feed them, we use about 40%of the planet’s total land mass. But based on the latest numbers the population is going to grow to about 10 billion by 2050. And there isn’t much more land we can use for farming because the rest is on mountains, deserts or ice. One possible solution for the meat problem is to create it artificially in laboratories. This is what they are doing at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Professor Mark J
Post produced the world’s first lab-grown hamburger there in 2013. The burger was tasty, but overpriced – it cost $330,000 to make. The price has gone down since then, but it’s still relatively expensive. Also, the meat is dry, not juicy like natural meat. Once Post and others have solved these problems, lab- grown beef will be a real option. In fact, experts predict that, by 2040, 60%of our meat will be lab-grown or plant-based. However, the fastest and most obvious solution is to eat less, or no meat. In fact, more and more younger people are doing this. An agency called Acosta found that 26%of millennials in the UK are currently vegetarian or vegan. There is also a newmovement called flexitarianism. Unlike vegetarians, flexitarians do not believe meat has to disappear completely from our diet. It’s okay to eat a chicken sandwich from time to time. But they recommend eatingmuchmore fruit, vegetables, cereals and nuts to avoid the negative consequences of excessive meat-eating (such as heart disease), animal cruelty and, above all, environmental destruction. A UK charity called The Soil Association is meeting the government soon to suggest that schools have one day a week without meat. But politicians know that trying to control what people eat isn’t always an easy decision. The UK government has already created a tax for sweet drinks, taken steps towards making school meals healthier and banned the sale of energy drinks to young children. Could they do something similar with meat one day? …Should they?
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4 Lab-grown meat isn’t as expensive as it used to be. 5 Lab-grown beef will never really help to solve our food problems. 6 It is particularly elderly people who are eating less meat now. 7 Flexitarians are worried about how meat is produced.
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Can your partner identify it? It’s a type of meat. If you buy it fresh, you can roast it. It can also be processed. It comes from a bird that’s bigger than a chicken.
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28 Read the text again and decide if the statements are True (T) or False (F). Write the number of the line(s) where you found the answer. 1 You need to use a lot of water and food to produce meat. T / F 2 According to the text, farmers are reducing rainforest to make space for animals. T / F 3 In the future, there will be a lot more people living on Earth and there will be a lot more land to grow food, too. T / F
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4 What do the underlined words in the text mean? Guess and then check in your dictionary. Critical thinkers 5 In your opinion, does this text give you convincing arguments or statistics to reduce the amount of meat we eat? What makes you say that? Use ideas in the text and/or other facts, opinions and experiences to justify your opinion. Then share your ideas with a partner.
speaking Ask and answer the questions. 1 On a school day, what do you usually have for lunch and where? 2 What are some typical national dishes from your country? Do you like them? 3 Which three words from 2 best describe the food you most frequently eat?
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