BBC: Could you go vegan?-2

We asked you about well-known vegans: which of these is vegan?

a) Brad Pitt   b) Jennifer Lopez    or   c) Miley Cyrus>

And I said it was Miley Cyrus. 

Well, you're kind of half right, Catherine. In fact, both Brad Pitt and Miley Cyrus are vegan. Jennifer Lopez used to be, but has since started eating meat again, apparently. 

Now, why don't we wrap up by lookin g at today's vocabulary one more time?

Well- we started with emissions: gases produced by something or an activity such as digestion. Livestock emissions for example- are gases produced by animals. 

We can also add a word that describes a kind of emissions, like methane emissions or greenhouse gas emissions.

Next up we had in this day and age- which means 'these days'.

I still can't believe you still don't have a smartphone  in this day and age, Neil. 

Well, maybe I just object to smartphones for ethical reasons!

So you have for moral reasons to smartphones?

Yeah, for me it's important to understand the conditions of the workers in the factory where the smartphone is made. 

That's fair enough then. But, Neil, you haven't become vegan yet for ethical reasons, have you?

You've got me there- I admire veganism but I still like cheese too much to do it!  Veganism is the noun. 

That's right. So two more words to go - we have arid and livestock. Arid describes land that is too dry to support many crops or plants. 

But arid regions can sometimes support livestock- livestock means farm animals. If you think of the 'stock' as being the assets of a business, then animals are 'living' or 'live' stock. 

And that brings us to the end of today's programme.