Food Production |
| In
the not-too-distant past farm animals were able to | |
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live (0)
NATURAL lives in what we would now term | NATURE |
| 'free-range'
conditions. Such farming methods however, | |
| 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 |
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of genetically engineered (4) ... hormones, which | GROW |
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resulted in a massive increase in food (5) ... | PRODUCE |
| However,
these developments in the use of factory | |
|
farming and drug (6) ... have led to a widespread | TREAT |
|
feeling that animals are being caused a lot of distress | |
| and
that the quality of the food itself suffers as a | |
| 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
| |
| choosing
to eat organic food, supporting farmers who use | |
| free-range
methods, a system which has proved to be | |
| both
(10) ... and more humane. | ECONOMY |