中庸第一篇原文 年3月高口阅读下半场第一篇原文及解析(新东方版)

年3月高口阅读下半场第一篇原文及解析(新东方版)  

The lobbying carried out by food manufacturers to block a European-wide food labelling system backed by doctors is laid bare in a series of private emails published today by The Independent.
In a flurry of statements and position papers to MEPs in the run up to key votes
Kellogg's
Danone
Coca-Cola
Nestle and other manufacturers claimed that colour-coded traffic lights were incapable of informing shoppers about the right diet.
traffic light system 定义1（第一题）
They claimed that studies showed that their favoured percentage-based Guideline Daily Amounts (GDAs) had wide consumer acceptance. Polls by the National Heart Forum and the consumer group Which? that looked at both systems found shoppers preferred colour-coding.
GDA使用百分比表示食品成分，traffic light system 用颜色表示。（第三题）
On Wednesday
the European Parliament rejected the traffic light system devised by the Food Standards Agency vote in favour of GDAs. At the same time
they backed the pulsory labelling of harmful trans-fats and country of origin on processed products.
traffic light system定义2
Glenis Willmott
the leader of Labour's MEPs
accused the food industry of heavy-handed tactics. "People weren't being told the full facts and the amount of time and money poured in by lobbyists was huge
" she said. "It must have had an impact."
Mette Kahlin
policy advocate for Which?
said: "While I was lobbying in Brussels for it was clear I was outnumbered by industry lobbyists 100-1. Consumer and health anisations don't have enough money to match that."
Devised by the UK Food Standards Agency in 2006
traffic lights show red lights for high levels of salt
fat and sugar
and amber and green for lower amounts. The British Medical Association
British Dietetic Association and British Heart Foundation are among the health groups that support the scheme.
traffic light system 的定义3
On Monday
the Ad Hoc GDA Group
representing 11 manufacturers including Kellogg's
Mars
Nestle and Unilever
emailed MPs in a last-ditch attempt to swing their vote. "We still believe that a traffic light approach provides too judgmental an assessment of foodstuffs – the plex nutritional position of a food and its place in the diet cannot be reduced to a single colour
" they wrote.
In an earlier email
Nestle France warned that the introduction of a colour-coded system would "in effect
create an arbitrary judgement about the food and this
in total disconnection with dietary requirements."
以上两段解释了为什么食品制造商反对coloured-coded traffic lights(第二题）

Coca-Cola even claimed that a diet based upon green lights could be harmful. In a document headed "Food labelling
basic elements for discussion"
sent in 2008
the US fizzy drinks giant told MEPs: "Colour coding gives the consumer false assurances. A diet based upon products with green lights would lead to chronic nutritional deficiences."
"The briefings are not based on evidence
" protested Ms Kahlin
"In the UK we have had traffic lights and no one has been admitted to hospital with malnutrition from eating food signed with green lights. People still eat products marked red but they bee aware of what is in their food."
The EU wants to introduce a unified labelling system to cut obesity
diabetes and other illnesses
which are causing millions of lost days at work and billions of pounds in health costs. Poor diet is thought to kill 70
000 people in the UK every year.
At the request of the Food Standards Agency
retailers Sainsbury's
Waitrose and Asda have put traffic lights on their own-label products
but they have been fiercely opposed by Tesco and multinational manufacturers.
In recent months
Pepsico
Danone and other global food giants and trade groups have mounted one of the biggest lobbying operations in EU history.
Lobbyists accosted MEPs in bars and restaurants and began turning up in their offices without appointments. They bombarded MEPs with documents
reports and factsheets praising GDAs and undermining traffic lights.
The lobbying was aimed at members of the Environment mittee before a key vote in March
when it rejected traffic lights by 32-30. All 736 MEPs were targeted in the run-up to Wednesday's vote.
Manufacturers maintained the lobbying was based on solid evidence.
Kellogg's said: "If we're to win the obesity battle
consumers need a labelling scheme that gives them a much greater understanding of what's in their food so they can make informed choices. GDAs do this in a way traffic lights simply can't
and that's why we'll continue to use and support them."
Coca-Cola said: "Our munication to MEPs was based on thorough research of European consumers that is publicly available."
Nestle said: "GDAs are factual and objective and ensure consumers can evaluate a product's role in their daily diet."
Unilever
Mars and Danone were unavailable for ment.