Britain's Royal Society has released a report looking at how science and technology can be used to fight a food shortage it says is expected to hit the globe by 2050.
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You also have to factor in here how much physical work is involved in getting the food.
你还要考虑,多少体力,被用了在寻找食物上
Because nutrition is going to be one of the big problems of your generation; how to have enough nutritious food for the population as it grows.
因为营养,对你们这一代人是个大问题,怎样才能确保食物的质和量,能够满足日益增长人口的需求
How many of you would guess that Unilever is the world's largest food company?
有多少人认为,联合利华是世界上最大的食品公司
When we think about the way food is marketed, we have to ask ourselves how were these messages framed, who's being targeted, what the message is, and of course what the impact is.
当我们想到食品营销的方法时,我们得问自己,这些信息是怎么来的,哪些人是它们的目标群体,这些信息是什么,当然还有它的影响是什么
You may know from reading food labels that these ingredients in any food label are listed in order of how much there is in the food itself, so sugar comes right after peanuts.
看看食品标签你就会知道,食物配料都列在食品标签上,以它在食品中的含量多少的顺序排列,所以糖的含量仅次于花生
That is, how many hamburgers do we think are being eaten and that's the food disappearing; how much of the foods are being consumed in processed products and the like, so that's a pretty gross estimate as well.
比如说,多少个汉堡包被吃了,那就是食物消费,有多少食品被,以加工好的成品等形式消费,所以其中估计的成分也很多
And then you can look at food disappearance data and that's sort of a connection with the food production data: not so much how much is produced but how much of it is disappearing from the--the food supply.
然后看看食物消耗的记录,会与食物生产的数据,有某种联系,与其看在食品供应中生产了多少,倒不如关注被消费了多少
The person who does that best is Michael Pollan, and when you read his book, In Defense of Food, he spends some time in the book defining what food is and working through this--this quagmire of how do we define food and what's acceptable to eat, what's socially acceptable, what's personally acceptable.
这一点上迈克尔·伯伦做得最好,你们可以看看他写的书《为食物辩护》,他在书中给食物下了定义,并深入地探讨了这个难题,即如何区分食物与能吃的东西,社会普遍接受的东西,个人能够接受的东西
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