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77 words
- A study warns that bushmeat sales are growing online.
- The sales happen on social media platforms and groups.
- Sellers post pictures and prices to find customers.
- Sellers sell smoked meat, fresh meat, cooked meat or live animals.
- This trade can spread diseases from animals to people.
- It also harms wild animals and reduces biodiversity.
- Some sellers say customers need these food products.
- Experts want better rules and stronger controls.
- Private messaging makes it harder to trace activity.
Difficult words
- bushmeat — meat from wild animals hunted in nature
- social media platform — a website or app where people share postssocial media platforms
- seller — a person who sells things to otherssellers
- disease — an illness that makes people or animals sickdiseases
- biodiversity — the number of different plants and animals
- private messaging — sending messages in small or private groups
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Discussion questions
- Have you ever bought food online?
- Do you use social media to buy or sell things?
- Do you think rules for online sales are needed?
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