おはようございます。KANOです。本日はこちらの記事から。
牛肉はそもそも好きじゃない（実家で出てくる牛肉がとても臭くて硬かったから）のですが、これは温暖化対策視点での話。
set off
意味 始める
The popular food site Epicurious recently announced they’ve stopped publishing recipes with beef in them, because of beef’s climate impacts, setting off the latest round of discussion on meat’s effects on the environment.
www.vox.com
「the latest round of discussionを開始した」ですね。欧米は行動が早いですねー。日本でも唐揚げ・チキン屋さんが増えてる記事を見たけど、これは所得低下とか持ち帰り需要だろうからねー。
calculus
意味 [C] （特殊な記号体系を用いる） 計算法, 論法
Often, it’s beef that loses out in that calculus.
www.vox.com
end up
意味 最後は ＜…で＞ 終わる ＜with＞, 最終的に ＜…することに＞ なる ＜(by) doing＞
That ends up swapping one disaster — the climate crisis and beef farming’s role in it — for another: the moral disaster of industrial chicken production.
www.vox.com
Cows are big, so raising one produces about 500 pounds of beef — and at the rate at which the average American eats beef, it takes about 8.5 years for one person to eat one cow. But chickens are much smaller, producing only a few pounds of meat per bird, with the average American eating about one whole chicken every two weeks.
www.vox.com
なるほど…確かに失われる命の「数」を考えれば、鶏よりは牛の方が人道的だという考え方もありますね。
suffer
意味 苦しむ
Because chickens are so much smaller than pigs and cows, more chickens suffer for the food we eat.
www.vox.com
compound
意味 (かたく)〈良くない物· 事が〉〈問題· 困難な状況など〉をさらに複雑にする, さらに悪化させる （[!]しばしば受け身で）
The choice to swap beef for chicken is further compounded by the differences in their quality of life.
www.vox.com
slaughter
意味 〈動物〉を屠殺する, 畜殺する, つぶす.
On the other hand, factory-farmed chickens — and that’s 99 percent of all chickens we eat — have an awful life from the moment they’re born to the moment they’re slaughtered.
www.vox.com
この形の単語で名詞・動詞って…ふー…w
massive
意味 大規模な
So switching from cows to chickens is a way to somewhat reduce carbon emissions — but it comes with a massive increase in animal suffering.
www.vox.com
