托福阅读经背景：人类少吃肉对环境有好处.docx

智课网TOEFL备考资料托福阅读机经背景：人类少吃肉对环境有好处 A new study says one of the best ways to curb greenhouse gas emissions is to eat less meat. In fact, the study says meat consumption in the developed should be cut by 50 percent per person by 2050. 一份新的研究说，遏制温室气体排放最好的办法之一是少吃肉。事实上，研究说，已开发国家每人的肉类消费量应该在2050年前减少50%。 Meat production and consumption are expected to soar by 2050. That’s because the global population is projected to grow from the current 7 billion to 9 billion. But also, the diets of people in many developing countries are changing. Countries with emerging economies are seeing a sharp rise in protein consumption, especially red meat. 肉类生产和消费将在2050年前上升，这是因为全球人口预计从目前70亿增加到90亿。但同时，许多发展中国家人民的饮食正发生变化。新兴经济体对蛋白质，尤其是红肉的消费急剧上升。 Dr. Eric Davidson said changing how people eat can have a dramatic effect on greenhouse gas emissions. People in developed countries, he said, already eat much more protein than the daily minimum requirement. 艾瑞克.大卫森博士说，改变人们的饮食会对温室气体排放有显著影响。他说，已开发国家人们吃的蛋白质已经远超过每日所需。 “In the developed world there’s considerable room for us to manage our portion sizes and the frequency with which we eat meat. We’re not talking about everybody suddenly needing to become a vegetarian. Rather it’s kind of reversing the supersize trend and being more mindful of the impacts of the amount of meat and the types of meat, both for the environment and our own health,” he said. 大卫森说：“在已开发国家，我们吃肉的份量和频率还有很大的改变空间。我们不是说每个人要突然变成素食者。而是说，要扭转超大份量的趋势，更注意肉类的份量和种类对环境和自身健康的影响。” Davidson is the president and senior scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts. 麻萨诸塞州伍德霍尔研究中心的主席和资深科学家大卫森说： Meat, manure and gas “If there is a growing demand for meat, which of course there is, that is going to end up requiring use of more nitrogen fertilizer and production of more livestock manure, both of which end up resulting in unintentional releases of various forms of nitrogen to the environment, including nitrates to groundwater and surface water and also greenhous