Ex. 6. Discuss the following questions. Is it worth spending millions of pounds to protect endangered species? Is it so important if a few rare species of primate become extinct?
Ex. 7. Work with the text. Fill the gaps in the sentences using these key words from the text. sacrifice consumption gluttony contradictory simplistic graze livestock ruminant feasibility flatulence
____________________ is the process of eating or drinking something.
A ____________________ is an animal such as a cow or sheep that brings food back from its stomach into its mouth to chew it a second time.
____________________ is when a person or animal has too much gas in their stomach or intestines.
When animals ____________________, they eat grass growing in a field.
____________________ is the chance that something has of happening or being successful.
____________________ is the bad habit of eating more than you need.
If two or more ideas are ____________________, they disagree with each other and cannot both or all be true.
If you make a ____________________, you give up something important or valuable so that you or other people can do or have something else.
A ____________________ idea treats something in a way that makes it seem simpler than it really is.
Decide whether these statements are True (T) or False (F). Then check your answers in the text. Carbon dioxide is a more effective greenhouse gas than methane.
Meat production produces 10% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.
The average British person eats more meat than WHO guidelines recommend.
Reducing car use by half would cut greenhouse gases by more than reducing meat consumption by half.
If everyone became vegetarian, greenhouse gases would be reduced dramatically.
Keeping livestock indoors would be bad for their health.
