Meat production requires relatively more land than crop production. Some people think that as land is becoming scarce, the world’s meat consumption should be reduced. What measures could be taken to reduce the world’s meat consumption? What kinds of problem might such measures cause? Give reasons for your answer, and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

The given table compares the figures of a research on why 100

thousand

UK residents visited overseas from 1994 to 1998 and which countries they travelled during

this

time. It is clear that the majority of UK citizens travelled aboard on their holiday and Western Europe was their most favourite

destination

Suggestion

destinations

. In 1994, about 22

thousand

UK residents travelled to different foreign countries and more than 15

thousand

of them went on their holidays, while the figures for business and visiting relatives was 2

thousand

and 3

thousand

people respectively.

This

number

then

slightly fell until 1998, when it bounced back in almost all of the categories.

Finally

, in 1998, the traveller number reached more than 28

thousand

and among them, about 20

thousand

people travelled to enjoy their holidays. In the

second

table, about 18

thousand

UK travellers went to Western Europe in 1994.

This

number moderately dropped,

then

rose to almost 25

thousand

people in 1998. The figures for travellers that went to North America and the rest of the world

also

saw a

marginally

Suggestion

marginal

decline, which is unnoticeable compared to that of their

counterpart

Suggestion

counterparts

.