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Text 3 Food Fightby Jeffrey Kluger About the Author Jeffrey Kluger is a senior writer at Time magazine, covering science in general and the space program in particular. He is the coauthor, along with astronaut Jim Lovell, of Lost Moon, the book that served as the basis of the 1995 movie, Apollo 13. He is the sole author of a second book-The Apollo Adventure-that accompanied the release of the movie, and he is currently writing a new book for Simon Schuster about the unmanned space program and the exploration of the solar system. His features and columns have appeared in dozens of publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Gentlemens Quarterly, The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan. He is an adjunct instructor in the graduate journalism program at New York University. Discussion: 1. Have you ever heard of “GM food”? What is “GM food”? Are you in favor of consuming GM food? Why? 2. Whats your comment on “its consumers who will have the final word”? Analysis of the text: Part I (1-2) Para. 1 What happened to McDonalds? Why? folks n.民族；人们 run the risk of冒…的危险 dumped vt.倾倒；丢下，卸下 Para. 2 What makes people in France so angry at McDonalds? Theres a lot about McDonalds that angers the farmers － its sameness, its blandness, the culinary hegemony it represents － 麦当劳店的许多方面都让农场主们愤怒，如：它的雷同，它的毫无特色，以及它所代表的餐饮霸权。 yet at the outset the demonstrations were remarkably genteel, with protesters occupying restaurants and offering customers an alternative meal of baguettes stuffed with cheese or foie gras. 然而，开始时，示威还很温和，抗议者餐馆，给顾客提供一种里面塞着奶酪或鹅肝的面包作为替代食物。 Protesters are finding ever more to dislike about the uniquely American food － especially the very genes that make the McDonalds beef or bun or potato what it is. 抗议者发现越来越不喜欢这种典型的美国食物，特别是使麦当劳的牛肉，小面包和土豆成为现在这个样子的基因。 Blandness平淡无奇 culinary adj.厨房的，烹饪的 hegemony n.霸权；霸权主义 at the outset一开始；当初 genteel adj.文雅的；有礼貌的；有教养的 baguettes n.法国长面包 stuffed with使塞满 foie gras n.法肥鹅（或鸭）肝（酱） nasty adj.肮脏的；下流的，令人讨厌的 bun n.圆形的小面包或点心 Part II (