A new study shows that people around the world are changing their diets because of soaring food prices, CNN reports. |
據(jù)美國(guó)有線電視新聞網(wǎng)報(bào)道,一項(xiàng)新的研究表明,持續(xù)上漲的食品價(jià)格正在改變著世界各國(guó)人民的飲食習(xí)慣。? |
The majority of people in most countries surveyed by international aid agency Oxfam said they are no longer eating the same kind of food as they did two years ago, with 39 percent globally blaming rising food costs and another 33 percent citing health reasons. |
國(guó)際慈善機(jī)構(gòu)樂(lè)施會(huì)進(jìn)行的調(diào)查顯示,被調(diào)查的國(guó)家中大多數(shù)人都說(shuō)他們和兩年前吃的不一樣了,39%的人將其歸咎于食品價(jià)格上漲,另有33%的人說(shuō)是健康原因。 |
Seventy-six percent of respondents in Kenya told Oxfam that they've changed their diets, with 79 percent blaming food prices. In Mexico, 65 percent of respondents changed diets, with more than half blaming prices as well. In the U.S., 55 percent of respondents said they no longer eat the same kinds of food they did two years ago, and 31 percent attribute the change to food prices. |
在肯尼亞,76%的受訪者稱已改變了飲食習(xí)慣,他們中79%的人認(rèn)為食品漲價(jià)是罪魁禍?zhǔn)祝辉谀鞲纾?5%的受訪者表示飲食習(xí)慣跟以前不同,其中超過(guò)半數(shù)的人認(rèn)為是物價(jià)上漲導(dǎo)致的;在美國(guó),55%的受訪者說(shuō)和兩年相比飲食有變化,其中31%的人認(rèn)為食品價(jià)格高漲是主因。 |
"Our diets are changing fast and for too many people it is a change for the worst," said Jeremy Hobbs, executive director of Oxfam. "Huge numbers of people, especially in the world's poorest countries, are cutting back on the quantity or quality of the food they eat because of rising food prices."
(China.org.cn June 17, 2011) |
樂(lè)施會(huì)執(zhí)行主任霍布斯說(shuō):“我們的飲食習(xí)慣變化很快。對(duì)很多人而言,這是最糟糕的變化。由于食品價(jià)格飛漲,大量人群,尤其是世界最貧困國(guó)家的人群,正削減他們的口糧、降低飲食質(zhì)量?!?/td> |