2013年12月8日 星期日

locavore, farm-share program,carnivore, carnitine, to iron out,boom, unity, -vore


Today at 12pm the mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe takes the guest seat opposite Marilyn Horne on the Operavore show. She talks about her big break back in '96 - and about taking on American Songbook standards in recent years.


Charles C. Mann has faced up to the locavore’s dilemma. At his home in the Berkshires, he likes to eat food that has traveled directly from his own garden: heirloom tomatoes, eggplant, bell peppers, kale, chard, lettuce and other foods for his table. He and his family belong to a farm-share program in which they advance money each year to a farmer a few miles away in return for the farm’s crops. He loves local food, but he knows too much about it to be a truly devout locavore.





'Buy Local' Gets Creative

By RANDY KENNEDY

Community-supported art programs are popping up all over the country, demonstrating that the concept works just as well for art lovers as for locavores.



More Talks Set as Leaders in Greece Seek Unity Coalition

The chances of Greek politicians’ forming a unity government all but evaporated on Sunday, but President Karolos Papoulias said he would keep trying. 






Regulator Steps In for Samsung
South Korea's biggest Internet-service provider agreed to resume providing access to Samsung's smart TVs, after regulators urged the companies to iron out differences.


IT’S hard to dismiss the current locavore boom in the Berkshires as mere fashion. In fact, the national enthusiasm for eating farm-to-table has roots in western Massachusetts. The nation’s first agricultural fair was held in Berkshire County in the early 19th century, and in 1986, when the country’s first two community-supported agriculture farms were established, one was in the southern Berkshires.
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Local food (also regional food or food patriotism) or the local food movement is a "collaborative effort to build more locally based, self-reliant food economies - one in which sustainable food production, processing, distribution, and consumption is integrated to enhance the economic, environmental and social health of a particular place"[1] and is considered to be a part of the broader sustainability movement. It is part of the concept oflocal purchasing and local economies, a preference to buy locally produced goods and services. Those who prefer to eat locally grown/produced food sometimes call themselves locavores or localvores.[2]


unity[u・ni・ty]

  • レベル:大学入試程度
  • 発音記号[júːnəti]

[名](複 -ties)[U]
1 単一(であること), 単独;[C]個体, 単一体.
2 (諸要素による)全体構成;統一(性), まとまり(⇒UNION[類語]);一貫性, 均一性
find unity in variety
多様性の中に統一性を見いだす.
3 合同, 合併, 団結, 編入, 加盟
achieve unity among allies
連合国が団結する.
4 (…との)共感, 和合, 一致, 協調((with ...))
family unity
一家の和合
live in unity with nature
自然と融和して生活する
unity between Government and people
政府と国民の協調.
5
(1) [C]《演劇》(劇構成での)一致, (時・場所・筋の)三単一:Aristotleに源を発する古典派演劇の法則.
(2) (文学・芸術作品の効果としての)調和.
6 《数学》(ある数量の代表単位としての)1(one);恒等式(identity).
7 《法律》合有[合同](状態).



-vore

Syllabification: (-vore)

combining form

in names of members of groups corresponding to adjectives ending in -vorous (such as detritivore corresponding to detritivorous).

locavore
→ n. N. Amer. a person whose diet consists only or principally of locally grown or produced food.
Origin: C21: on the pattern of carnivore, herbivore, etc.

這項研究及一系列附加的實驗發現,紅肉中的一種從未成為懷疑對象的物質——肉鹼——似乎是罪魁禍首。黑曾醫生說“肉鹼”(carnitine)存在 於紅肉中,這個名稱來自於拉丁詞carnis,也就是食肉動物(carnivore)一詞的詞根。他指出,其他食物中也有肉鹼,包括魚肉和雞肉,甚至乳製 品,不過量都很小。他說紅肉是肉鹼的主要來源,對那些大量食用紅肉的人來說,它可能是一種隱患。

carnivore[car・ni・vore]

  • 発音記号[kɑ'ːrnəvɔ`ːr]
[名]
1 肉食動物(⇔herbivore).
2 ((おどけて))肉の好きな人(⇔vegetarian).


Kings of the carnivores

Apr 30th 2012, 15:40 by The Economist online
Who eats most meat? Vegetarians should look away
THE world has a burgeoning appetite for meat. Fifty years ago global consumption was 70m tonnes. By 2007—the latest year for which comparable data are available—it had risen to 268m tonnes. In a similar vein, the amount of meat eaten by each person has leapt from around 22kg in 1961 to 40kg in 2007.

 Tastes have changed at the same time. Cow (beef and veal) was top of the menu in the early 1960s, accounting for 40% of meat consumption, but by 2007 its share had fallen to 23%. Pig is now the animal of choice, with around 99m tonnes consumed. Meanwhile advances in battery farming and health-related changes in Western diets have helped propel poultry from 12% to 31% of the global total.

Although populous middle-income countries such as China are driving the worldwide demand for meat, it is mainly Western countries who still eat most per person. Luxembourgers, who top this chart, are second only to Argentinians in beef consumption. Austrians are the keenest pig-eaters, wolfing down 66kg every year—just more than Serbians, Spaniards and even neighbouring Germans. At the other end of the scale, cow-revering Indians eat only 2.6kg of meat each, the least of the 177 countries assessed. See the full data.


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