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Podcast: News For Kids
Episode: Taiwan's Kids Get Free Milk
Description: Taiwan's Kids Get Free Milk
Ahhhh! Milk is good for you. Most of the milk people drink comes from cows. This milk helps your bones and teeth become stronger.
牛奶對身體好，喝牛奶可以幫助骨頭跟牙齒強壯。
Last year, people in Taiwan drank 20 liters of milk each. But that's much less than people in Europe and Australia. Europeans drank 53 liters each. Australians drank 92 liters each!
台灣去年每人平均喝20公升的牛奶，比歐洲跟澳洲人少很多。歐洲每個人一年喝掉53公升，澳洲每人喝92公升。
Taiwan knows that milk is good for kids. So kids from three years old to twelve years old are getting free milk! They're getting it at school. More than one million kids in Taiwan are getting free milk. That's a lot of milk!
台灣知道牛奶對兒童的身體好，所以3到12歲，一共超過100萬個兒童可以在學校免費拿牛奶。
All that milk isn't cheap. Taiwan will pay more than one billion Taiwan dollars every year!
這麼多的牛奶並不便宜，每年需要多花超過十億台幣。
Some kids can't drink milk. But that's okay! They don't have to drink it. They are getting...