Ever wondered about food? Answers
‘Ever wondered about ……?’ = ‘Have you ever wondered about …..?’ This is a phrase you might hear in a conversation between people who are reasonably familiar with each other+. It is a phrase, maybe an opening one, which invites a quick response. Here it is a catchy title for a series of programmes.
+Eg
‘Ever been to Italy?’ more formally ‘Have you ever been to Italy?’
‘Ever heard of him?’ more formally ‘Have you ever heard of him?’
It can convey various verb tenses:
‘Ever visit her?’ -‘Do you ever visit her?’
‘Ever study music?’ = "Did you ever study music?’
‘Ever regret it?’ ‘Did you ever regret it?’
1 He has given him huge support and has made sure they get the science right.
2 That we are told to eat more fresh fish because it is so good for us, but other people say we should stop eating fish altogether because the supply of fish is under threat from overfishing.
3 Paul says they have been responsible about their way of approaching the matter of fish. (He means they have taken these ecological concerns on board ie into account.)
4 It means fish which has been caught on a rod and line.
5 He is a marine biologist
(‘how I approach fish….. / where I come at fish from ….. = what my attitude towards fish is, …….)
NB I understand where you’re coming from – colloq – ‘what your thinking is about …..)
6 He was born on the first day of the fishing season!
7 That they are seriously under threat
8 ‘Were it up to him’ …….
9 That fish is probably the easiest food to ruin (to mess up – colloq) and it is also the most expensive protein to deal with.
10 Fishing by trawler-net
11 Because it has no further ecological impact on the ocean and does no damage to the sea-bed or marine ecology.
a by-product – something that is produced as a result of doing or making something else, or something unexpected that happens as a result of something. Here – the act of fishing for food (probably necessary) also destroys the environment in which other creatures, plants and fish live. Paul implies there is no need for this to happen, it is unnecessary to cause this much destruction.
12 That people should only pull out what they need to eat and nothing else. (or You only catch the fish you actually need and don’t pull out lots of other fish which are not eaten but get killed in the process.)
13 ‘This makes sense’
14 To eat more fish than at present as part of a healthy balanced diet.
15 Certain fish-oils
16 They need to find a middle road.
17 Responsibility
18 Decent organic fish farms
19 As an example of a well-farmed fish – it is not a wild fish, but you can get very good quality sea-bass from a fish farm.
20 10grs of protein from sand-eels etc – (this means sea-birds lose their source of food).
21 No, he says we know the facts and mustn’t be blind to them.
22 Because we’re an island, so surrounded by sea and should be eating a lot of fish.
23 That they don’t like the smell of cooking it, or that about dealing with a whole animal (Maybe it’s a smell thing, or an entire animal thing – this is a common popular way of saying an issue or problem; they are squeamish about dealing with whole animals would be impressive standard English!)
24 A In that fish is our one major food resource which is still wild; other food has already become part of our agriculture.
Or B In that fish are the last of our wild food that occurs naturally. A lot of vegetables and cattle are farmed.
25 We might consider that although fish farming seems radical, actually,when you look at the rest of how our food is produced, it is not.