Online Class Notes (Lily) [S/R]

Vocabulary

1.terrestrial (adj)= land 陆地的
ex: we should protect terrestrial animals like white tigers and elephants.

2. captive-bred= 圈养
ex: a lot of animals we eat are captive-bred.

3. quail= 鹌鹑
ex: I love to have quail eggs when I eat hotpot.

4. price markup= 涨价
ex: HDL had a price markup of 6% and later apologized to the public.

5. aquatic= water related
ex: do you like aquatic sports? Nope.
ex: I always go to aquatic center to swim.

6. aquarium= 海洋馆 海族馆
ex: Many little kids like to go to the aquarium.

Speaking exercise

The phenemenon of eating dogs and cats is quite common in the SZ area. SZ is a very big city, if they announce this regulation, maybe other cities will follow them. It is very hard to totally stop this trading, it can prevent most of the kind of trade to stop, it will take time to stop all of them. For normal people, if you have to spend double money to eat them, they will gradually change their habit.

For some businessmen, if they eat rare animals, it’s a showoff.

Revised

The phenemenon of eating dogs and cats is quite common in the SZ area. SZ is a very big city, if they announce this regulation, maybe other cities will follow them. It is very hard to totally stop this trading completely, it can prevent most of the trades to stop, it will take time to stop all of them. For normal people, if you have to spend twice the money to eat them, they will gradually change their eating habit.

For some businessmen, if they eat rare animals, it’s a showoff.

Reading

Shenzhen becomes first Chinese city to ban consumption of cats and dogsBy Jack Guy, Steven Jiang and Shanshan Wang, CNNUpdated 1320 GMT (2120 HKT) April 2, 2020(CNN)–Shenzhen, in southeastern China, has become the first city in the country to ban the consumption of cats and dogs, the government announced Thursday.

Under new rules which will come into effect May 1, the government said it will be illegal to eat animals raised as pets.In February, following the coronavirus outbreak, China passed a law to ban the consumption of wild animals.Now Shenzhen will prohibit the consumption of state-protected wild animals and other terrestrial wild animals taken from the wild, as well as captive-bred and farmed terrestrial wild species.

In addition, the consumption of animals raised as pets, such as cats and dogs will also be banned.Animals that can be consumed include pig, cattle, sheep, donkey, rabbit, chicken, duck, goose, pigeon, quail, as well as aquatic animals who are not banned by other laws or regulations.”If convicted, they will be subjected to a fine of 30 times of the wild animal’s value, if the animal is above the value of 10,000CNY [$1400 USD],” announced authorities.