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  3. Not content with its doubtful claim to produce cheap food for our own population, the factory farming industry also argues that

Not content with its doubtful claim to produce cheap food for our own population, the factory farming industry also argues that

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问题     Not content with its doubtful claim to produce cheap food for our own population, the factory farming industry also argues that "hungry nations are benefiting from advances made by the poultry industry". In fact, rather than helping the fight against malnutrition in "hungry nations", the spread of factory farming has 【S1】______ worsened the problem.
    Large-scale 【S2】______ meat and poultry production is a waste of food resources. This is because more protein has to be fed to animals in the form of vegetable 【S3】______ than can ever be recovered in the form of meat. Much of the value is lost in the animal’s process of digestion and cell 【S4】______ . Neither, in the case of chicken, can one eat feathers, blood, feet or head. In all, only about 44 % of the live animal fits to be eaten as meat.
    This means one has to feed approximately 9~10 times as much food value to the animal than one can 【S5】______ from the meat. As a system for feeding the hungry, the effects can prove disastrous, At times of 【S6】______ , grain is the food life.
    【S7】______ , the huge increase in poultry production throughout Asia and Africa continues. Normally British or US firms are involved. Because such trade is good for exports, Western governments encourage it. In 1997, a firm in Bangladesh called Phoenix Poultry received a 【S8】______ to set up a unit of 6 000 chickens and 18 000 laying hens. This almost doubled the number of poultry kept in the country all at once.
    But such chicken-raising demands 【S9】______ for building and machinery, extensive use of energy resources for automation(自动作), and involves feeding chickens with potential famine- 【S10】______ protein food. At present, one of Bangladesh’s main imports is food grains, because the country is unable to grow enough food to feed its population. On what then can they possibly feed the chicken?

A) matter           B) phase               C) inevitably            D) replacement
E) consistently     F) Nevertheless        G) capital               H) grant
I) Overall          J) relief              K) supervision           L) consume
M) crisis           N) exhaust             O) intensive
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