In this series, I would like to give you an opportunity to practice your English reading and listening skills. I will narrate a news article, and you can listen and read along with the text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first article is a piece of weird news. It is about the possibility of using insect fat in place of butter, in order to reduce our damage to the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Click here for a link the narration >><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n You can either download the MP3 file or stream it in another tab of your browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Try and read along with the original article on Reuters, linked below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n GHENT, Belgium (Reuters) – Belgian waffles may be about to become more environmentally friendly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scientists at Ghent University in Belgium are experimenting with larva fat to replace butter in waffles, cakes and cookies, saying using grease from insects is more sustainable than dairy produce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Clad in white aprons, the researchers soak Black soldier fly larvae in a bowl of water, put it in a blender to create a smooth greyish dollop and then use a kitchen centrifuge to separate out insect butter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere are several positive things about using insect ingredients,\u201d said Daylan Tzompa Sosa, who oversees the research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey are more sustainable because (insects) use less land (than cattle), they are more efficient at converting feed … and they also use less water to produce butter,\u201d Tzompa Sosa said as she held out a freshly baked insect butter cake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the researchers, consumers notice no difference when a quarter of the milk butter in a cake is replaced with larva fat. However, they report an unusual taste when it gets to fifty-fifty and say they would not want to buy the cake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Insect food has high levels of protein, vitamins, fiber and minerals and scientists elsewhere in Europe are looking at it as a more environmentally friendly and cheap alternative to other types of animal products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Waiter, there’s a fly in my waffle: Belgian researchers try out insect butter<\/a> [Reuters]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this series, I would like to give you an opportunity to practice your English reading and listening skills. I will narrate a news article, and you can listen and read along with the text. The first article is a piece of weird news. It is about the possibility of using insect fat in place… Read More »Let’s Read the News (English Listening and Reading Practice)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,5,21,22,6,4,8,7,12,18,17,16,19,15,13,14,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svscreate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svscreate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svscreate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svscreate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svscreate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/svscreate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/svscreate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svscreate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svscreate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svscreate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Waiter, there’s a fly in my waffle: Belgian researchers try out insect butter<\/h4>\n\n\n\n