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WE ARE WHAT WE EAT 10’’B’’ My teacher is Zhanna A. Kaplina Do we live to eat? How much food do you think you will eat by the time you are seventy-nine? The average Frenchwoman, for example, will eat: 9,000 litres of orange juice 25 cows 6,000 litres of mineral 40 sheep water 35 pigs 1.37 tonnes of apples 1,200 chickens 768 kg of oranges 2.07 tonnes of fish 5.05 tonnes of potatoes2.07 tonnes of fish 30,000 litres of milk 430 bags of carrots 5.05 tonnes of potatoes 13,000 eggs 720 kg of tomatoes 50,000 loaves of 30,000 litres of milk bread 1,300 lettuces 13,000 eggs Hundreds of packets of coffee, sugar, spaghetti, 8 kg of dirt etc. Delicious, isn’t it? How many cows and pigs have you swallowed already? Scientists say that we eat about half-a-ton of food a year – not counting drink! Some people eat even more. Why? • We live in the era of fast food culture. We are always in a hurry. We have no time to relax and enjoy a meal. We want to eat fast. Every day a new McDonald’s restaurant opens somewhere on our planet. Soon American food will take over the whole world. Put down this packet of chips and listen up! What is tasty is not always healthy. • Doctors say that chips and pizzas are fattening, CocaCola spoils our teeth, coffee shortens our lives. If you go on eating too much, you’ll become obese, and obesity leads to heart disease, diabetes and stroke. Some scientists believe that food influences not only our bodies but our spirits as well. • Foods with lots of additives, fat or sugar can make you violent and anti-social. Natural foods like fresh fruit and vegetables which contain lots of vitamins and minerals can make you more intelligent, optimistic and energetic. So think twice before you start eating! Being veggie is ‘in’ • More and more people now days become vegetarians. • A vegetarian diet is not only healthier, but it is also kinder. • Animals grown for meat production are now kept in special factory farms. Pigs, calves and chickens are locked in boxes and cannot even turn around! Calves are kept thirsty - the lack of liquid keeps the meat white! • If you really care about animals-and most of us dostop eating them! To Be or Not to Be… A Veggie • Some people still believe that you can’t live without meat. But modern scientific research shows that all the nutrients we need for a healthy life can If you went to the slaughterhouse be found in to see how animals are killed, you plants. wouldn’t eat meat And What Do You Think??? WHY NOT? YOU EAT OTHER ANIMALS,DON’T YOU?