Unit 4 Safe Food?

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Mr. Peter Stanton's major point of view: Fish and chips is still the most popular takeaway meal in Britain.矚慫润厲钐瘗睞枥庑赖。 Takeaway meals Sales volume per year fish and chips 450 million portions 380 million hamburgers Chinese & Indian takeaway meals 200 million meals 140 million meals friedchicken pizzas 80 million Sum of money spent per year ￡1.8 billion Sales volume 20 million perweek meals Sum of money spent per head per year ￡36 1. P: Presenter S: Mr. Peter Stanton P: Fish and chips is the traditional British takeaway meal,it's a completehot meal that can be takenhome toeat or eaten in the street, and it's still the most popular, isn't it, Peter Stanton?聞創沟燴鐺險爱氇谴净。 S: It certainly is, yes. Er ... the figures speak for themselves. For instance, the fish and chip market represents 450 million portions of fish and chips sold per year. This compares with only 380 million takeaway hamburgers a year. Um ... also looking at the ethnic takeaway meal, specially ... um ... Chinese and Indian, that accounts for 200 million meals per year. The fried chicken market, Kentucky and otherwise, that's 140 million meals a year -- 80 million takeaway pizzas per year. And that means that in Britain 20 milliontakeaway meals are sold per week and as a total, the British spend 1.8 billion pounds per year on takeaway meals and that works out at 36 pounds per head.残骛楼諍锩瀨濟溆塹籟。 B Dr. Marshall's major point of View: Takeaway meals are stuffed full of fat, sugar and additives酽锕极額閉镇桧猪訣锥。 Takeaway food a half-pound hamburger Content a small percentage of lean meat, 25% pure fat, other parts of the animal Calories 830 calories a portion of Chinese sweet and four ounces of pure fat 2 052 calories sour chicken rarely contain fresh milk and \\ icecream, but have artificial milkshakes flavor, additives made browner by coloring, chips \\ fried in beef fat 2. P: Presenter M: Dr. Janet Marshall

P: But takeaway meals may not be very good for our health, according to Dr. Janet Marshall.彈贸摄尔

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霁毙攬砖卤庑。 M: One of the major problems around takeaway food is that restaurants and fast food outlets are not

actually required by law to disclose the ingredients in their dishes––unlike for instance supermarkets –– and ... er ... takeaway meals are stuffed full of fat and sugar and additives. And of course high fat means a large amount of calories. If we look at some of the ... er... th ... the calorific e... er ... quantities in some of these takeaway foods, for instance hamburgers, which only contain a small percentage of lean meat––the rest being fat and other parts of the animal –– well, a half-pound hamburger contains 25% pure fat. which works out at 830 calories––which is in facthalfa typical woman's daily requirement. And ... um ... ifwe look at ... er ... atypical portion of Chinese sweet and sour chicken for instance, that would contain four ounces of pure fat, Which works out at 2052 calories! Milkshakes ... um ... very rarely contain freshmilk or icecream and their flavors are generally artificial. And their thickness is attributable to ... er ... additives like emulsifiers and wood pulp. And then the chip, which ... er ... we all know and love, is often made to look browner through coloring and ... er... chips are often fried in beef fat, which ... er ... is something vegetarians perhaps should be aware of as well.謀荞抟箧飆鐸怼类蒋薔。 C Mr. Terry Green's major point of view: Takeaway meals cause serious pollution and destroy our environment.厦礴恳蹒骈時盡继價骚。 the use of more and more beef in hamburger making cutting down tropicalthe packaging parts of uneaten茕桢广鳓鯡选块网羈泪。 rainforests to make hamburgers thrown room for cattleaway greenhouse effecthuge mountains of rubbish

3. P: Presenter G: Mr. Terry Green P: Terry Green of Friends of the Earth also has misgivings about takeawayfood.鹅娅尽損鹌惨歷茏鴛賴。 G: Well ... er ... the meat that they use in these hamburgers is often beef thatthey get from Latin America and ... er ... the beef that they export to theUnited States and Japan and Europe is produced by cutting down tropicalrainforests to make room for the cattle. OK, to produce a single hamburger,five square meters of rainforest have to be destroyed. Now the problem withthis is that people all over the world are being encouraged to eat more andmore beef and the only way they can raise this beef is by cutting down morerainforests. Now the packaging of the hamburgers has got CFCs(chlorofluorocarbons) in it, and we all know ... er ... those contribute to thegreenhouse effect. But I guess the most noticeable thing about these fast foodplaces is the huge mountains of rubbish ... er ... from the packaging and the partsof uneaten hamburgers thrown all over the street. It's really disgusting.籟丛妈羥为贍偾蛏练淨。 P: But is this a typically British phenomenon? ls it just the British way ofeating that is becoming

more and more dominated by takeaways? PeterStanton again.預頌圣鉉儐歲龈讶骅籴。 S: No, every country seems to have its own \fast foods. For example,ifwe look at the

various ...渗釤呛俨匀谔鱉调硯錦。

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