Chickens Are From The Jungle // How The Chicken Conquered The World
English Learning for Curious Minds
English - March 10, 2020 00:05 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsLanguage Learning Education How To learn english english language study english ingles inglês Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
It's the most populous bird in the world, outnumbering humans 3:1.
Today we are asking ourselves how an obscure bird from South East Asia went from jungle floor to being eaten at a rate of two every millisecond.
Full transcript, key vocabulary, and bonus episodes available on www.leonardoenglish.com
It's the most populous bird in the world, outnumbering humans 3:1.
Today we are asking ourselves how an obscure bird from South East Asia went from jungle floor to being eaten at a rate of two every millisecond.
In today's episode we cover:
🐔 How many chickens do we really eat?
🌎 Where do chickens come from?
🚗 Why were chickens so easy to transport?
🐣Chickens in ancient Egypt
🇮🇹 The Romans and chickens
👩🌾 Industrialised chicken farming
📊 Chickens vs. pork & beef
🍽 Chicken dishes around the world
👀 Life now for the ancestor of the chicken
🐥 My chickens
Key vocabulary: Humble, Roots, Outnumbering, Obscure, Wandering, Shoveled, Industrialisation, Asserted, Ancestor, Foraging, Predators, Branches, Bred, Remains, Grain, Lay, Fate, Sealed, Artificial, Incubation, Hatch, Delicacy, Fatten up, Wheat, Fell out of favour, Tended, Guinea fowl, Era, Antibiotics, Raised, Habitat, Antibiotics, Confined, Slaughtered, Consumption, Moral, Protein, Reflective, Affordability, Ubiquitous, Bland, Sheer, Wiped out, Erased, Puzzled, Retreat, Draws in, Twist of fate, Habitat, Eroded, Patch
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