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)
|
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)
|
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)
|
EXIST |
and
argue that more emphasis should be given to (9)
|
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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