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Snake dishes have become popular ____ recent years．Snake meat in various flavors (风味) is often seen in restaurant ads．Eating snake seems to be now in vogue(盛行), and if you haven’t eaten snake yet, you _____(consider) “out of date”．But I wonder______ all the trends are worth following.
Some people may defend themselves ______ saying that snake meat is nutritious．But these people don’t realize that many parasites(寄生虫)，____ do harm to our health, are found inside snakes.
According _____ a survey, about 1000 tons of snakes are eaten every year in China and sometimes as ____ as 10 tons of snakes are served on dinner tables in Shenzhen in a single day!
These figures warns us that if no action is taken, ______ number of snakes will drop and make an increase in mice and worms population, which will _______ in a decrease(减产) of crop output．Who will see such tragedy happen?
So let’s start not to eat snakes any more because “to protect the snake is to protect ______.”