Application Guideline

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Reporter        :Assalamualaykum and good morning. Today, I’m here UMT to know about the diet habits of UMT students. Now, follow me and go to the café for information.

        :what u eat today for ur lunch?

Student A                :er…curry chicken + rice .

Student B                :I got some fried bean sprouts, chicken and rice.

Student C                :I bought curry chicken wings and rice for my lunch today.

Reporter                :why u don’t pick some vege in ur lunch?

Student A                :here is lack of vege choices and if u come lately, sorry vege is sold out.

Student C        :I don’t really like vege, it’s like I’m a goat and I eat grass for my lunch. Meat is always my best choice for lunch.

Reporter        :from the Q&A just now, it’s very obvious that meat occupied a large portion of UMT students’ meal. By the way, what’s the environmental problems if we keep such diet habit going on?

Student D        :if our diet contains more than 30% is meat, we can defined ourselves as eating high on the food chain. In UMT, majority students tend to eat high on the food chain and this caused environmental problems.

Student E        :the first environmental problem caused by eating high on the food chain is it ups the risk of UMT students to get diseases. UMT students eat more chicken than beef and lamb. The report found high rate of chicken-related illnesses caused by clostridium perfringens, bacteria that multiply on cooked foods that are left at room temperature for too long after cooking. The infections they cause are generally mild but can lead to a life-threatening form of intestinal damage. Besides, if you are eating chicken, you are eating poop. A U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) study found that more than 99% of broiler chicken carcasses sold in stores had detectable levels of E.coli, indicating fecal contamination. That means you are almost guaranteed to be swallowing actual POOP every time you chomp down on a dead chicken.

Student F        :the second environmental problem is UMT students cause water and soil pollution indirectly. Once the requirement increases, the poultry production will be supported by market and expanse to larger scale. The carnage pollutes land, air, and water with diseased carcasses, feces, heavy metals, chemicals, bacteria, parasites, pathogen cysts, and viruses. Poultry manure contains large amounts of nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium. Excess nitrogen converts to ammonia and nitrates, burning the fragile cells of land plants and poisoning ground and surface waters. Concentrated poultry waste spawns excess algae that consume aquatic nutrients and block sunlight needed by underwater grasses. In decay, the algae suffocate fish. High levels of nitrate in ground used as drinking water can cause methemoglobinemia, a blood disorder in infants, known also as “blue baby disease”.