VII. Answer the questions and discuss your opinion with your classmates

1) Do you think that a man can live without meat? Is it a healthy lifestyle?

2) Does an average Russian man eat a sufficient amount of meat?

3) Is soya meat really healthy or not?

Answer the questions:

1 What is the general definition of meat?

2. Why is meat valuable in man's diet?

3. How can meats be classified?

4 What are the most widely consumed types of meat?

5. What is the meat-product industry concerned with?

6. What is common in nutrient composition of different meats?

7. Why is meat considered a complete source of protein?

8. What types of fat deposits are found in meat?

9. What is the biological role of fatty acids found in meat?

10. What vitamins and minerals is meat rich in?

11. What is the percentage of cholesterol in meat?

12. Why do meat-grading systems vary throughout the world?

13. What characteristics of meat are used as basis for meat grading?

14. What factors influence the storage of meat and how does meat pres­ervation help to control them?

15. How long can refrigerated and frozen meat be stored?

16. What are the main advantages of freezing method for meat preser­vation?

17. What is the difference between three commonly used methods of jneat preservation: canning, curing and smoking?

Grammar Issues to be revised:

1. Fill in the nouns protein (2), animal, spoilage, baby, meat (2), quality, pork, cell to form noun+noun attributive phrase. Translate the sentences into Russian.

1. The meat of sheep at the age of 6 or 10 weeks is known as the meat of... lamb.

2. There exist four... grades for mature mutton in the USA.

3. Meat is considered a complete... food, for it contains all nine essential amino acids.

4. The problem of... preservation has been solved by developing new technologies such as freezing and irradiation.

5.... microorganisms can be killed by addition of nitrite to meats.

6. In the USA... carcasses are graded according to the amount of edible meat.

7. Being the main constituent of... membranes, cholesterol is found

in all... tissues.

8.... packing includes both slaughtering animals and processing their meat.

9. As fat content in meat grows,... percentage decreases.

10. When meat is exposed to radiation... microorganisms are killed.