01：科学新知 Future food -2023中考英语外刊阅读原创试题（全国通用）

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01：科学新知 Future food -2023 中考英语外刊原创题

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In March 2017, about 25 people were invited to a kitchen in San Francisco, California, for a tasting event.

On the menu? Fried chicken, "This is some of the best fried chicken I've ever had," one guest said.

The compliment was extra special considering the source of the meat. It had been grown in a lab by

scientists from Memphis Meats. The company makes meat by safely extracting cells from animals such as

chickens, ducks, and cows.Then it feeds the cells nutrients . Those cells grow and multiply, forming muscle,

which is meat.Memphis Meats is one of several companies in the United States and around the world making

cellular (细胞的), or lab-grown, meat. Many people think it's better for the planet than raising animals for food.

Others aren’t so sure.

Why Cellular Meat?

The world's populations expected to grow to nearly1o billion by 2050, according to the United Nations

Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO). That's almost 2 billion more people than there are today. Eric

Schulzeis a vice president at Memphis Meats. He thinks feeding so many people will be tough. FAO says

people could eat 73% more meat in2050."With current meat production methods, there aren't enough resources

such as land and water to meet that need, Schulze told TIME for Kids.

Traditional meat production also requires lots of cows. And cows release methane( 甲烷 ), a gas which

traps heat in the atmosphere, which contributes to climate change.

Raising cows and other livestock takes up space, too. Currently, 77% of the world's farmland is used to

grow crops to feed livestock (家畜) or for the animals to graze on（掠过；吃）. Using more land for livestock

will lead to deforestation (采伐森林).

But cellular-meat production requires fewer cows and less land. Schulze says the cells taken during one

extraction can make more meat than any single animal could ever produce. Just how much land is needed?

"You only need the land required for the facility” where the meat is made, Elliot Swartz told TFK. He's a

scientist at the Good Food Institute, a group that promotes cellular meat and plant-based meat.

核心词汇：

1. compliment n. / v. 赞美，恭维

× He's always criticizing her, and never pays her a compliment. 他总是批评她，从来也不恭维一句。

× She complimentedhim on his excellent German. 她夸奖他德语棒极了。

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