--- title: Where meat and fish come from, told honestly — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Where meat and fish come from, told honestly», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A sausage at a barbecue is mostly minced pork, and pork is meat from a pig. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Where meat and fish come from, told ho… # Where meat and fish come from, told honestly Lesson 343 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 20 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/0/) — A sausage at a barbecue is mostly minced pork, and pork is meat from a pig. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/1/) — Meat is the muscle of an animal that was alive and was killed for food. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/2/) — It is not a nice story, but it is a true one, and it is better to know. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/4/) — Some people feel fine about eating meat, some feel unsure and some choose not to eat it at all, and all of these are real choices. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/5/) — Carve a roast chicken and you can count two legs, two wings and two breasts, each a different muscle. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/7/) — Fish come from the wild sea or from fish farms, like the round floating net pens in Scottish lochs. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/8/) — Catch too many and there are not enough left to have babies, which is what happened to the cod off Canada. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/9/) — Meat is the muscle of an animal that was killed for food; in Britain the law says animals at an abattoir must usually be made unconscious first so they do not feel it. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/10/) — After 1066 English-speaking farmers kept the animals but French-speaking Norman lords ate the meat, so we say cow, pig and sheep but beef, pork and mutton; chicken and fish kept one name. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/11/) — Dark meat has more myoglobin, a red protein that stores oxygen in muscles that work for a long time, so a chicken's legs are dark and its breast is pale, while ducks and wild pigeons that fly a lot have dark breast meat. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/12/) — A chicken has two legs, two wings and two breasts; the wishbone is its two collarbones joined together. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/13/) — Fish fingers are usually white fish such as cod, pollock or haddock, cut into blocks and breadcrumbed, and were first sold in Britain in 1955. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/14/) — Most salmon eaten in Britain comes from fish farms with big net pens in the sea; crowded pens can spread sea lice and disease to wild fish. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/15/) — Wild salmon are pink because they eat tiny shrimp with a pink colour in them, and farmed salmon get the same colour added to their food. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/16/) — Around Newfoundland so many cod were caught that the fishing was closed in 1992, thousands of people lost their jobs, and decades later the cod have still not fully come back. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/17/) — A blue fish label on packets shows fish from a fishery checked as well managed. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/18/) — Fish have many more small bones than mammals, such as the thin pin bones in salmon, while sharks have no bones at all, only bendy cartilage. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/19/) — Vegetarians eat no meat or fish, and vegans eat no food from animals at all; many Hindus do not eat beef, and Muslims and Jews do not eat pork. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/20/) — Beans, lentils, nuts, tofu and eggs give plenty of protein to people who do not eat meat. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/21/) — Raw meat, especially chicken, can carry germs such as Salmonella and Campylobacter; cooking all the way through kills them, and raw chicken should not be washed under the tap because splashes spread germs. - ← previous: [Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/342-where-eggs-come-from-hens-shell-colours-sizes-and-what-is-inside/) - next →: [Honey and the beekeeper's year](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)