Food
Production |
| In the not-too-distant
past farm animals were able to |
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| live (0)
lives in what we would now term |
NATURE |
| 'free-range'
conditions. Such farming methods, however, |
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| were not
able to supply the rapidly growing (1)
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POPULATE |
| of the
world and the increasing demands on food |
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| (2)
. In order to cope with this rising demand, factory |
CONSUME |
| farming
methods were introduced along with the (3)
|
DEVELOP |
| of genetically
engineered (4)
hormones, which |
GROW |
| resulted
in a massive increase in food (5)
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PRODUCE |
| However, these
developments in the use of factory |
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| farming and drug (6)
have led to a widespread |
TREAT |
| feeling that animals
are being caused a lot of distress |
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| and that
the quality of the food itself suffers as a |
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| consequence. Certainly, many people (7)
with the
idea |
AGREE |
| of
keeping animals in one building for their entire (8)
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EXIST |
| and
argue that more emphasis should be given to (9)
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ALTERNATE |
| farming
methods. A growing number of people are |
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| choosing to eat organic food, supporting farmers who
use |
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| free-range methods, a system which has proved to be |
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| both (10)
and more
humane. |
ECONOMY |
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