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Not content with its doubtful claim to produce cheap food for our own population, the factory-fanning industry also argues that
Not content with its doubtful claim to produce cheap food for our own population, the factory-fanning industry also argues that
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2010-05-26
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Not content with its doubtful claim to produce cheap food for our own population, the factory-fanning industry also argues that "hungry nations are benefiting from advances made by the poultry (家禽) industry". In fact, rather than helping the fight against malnutrition (营养不良) in "hungry nations", the spread of factory fanning has, inevitably aggravated(加重)the problem.
Large-scale intensive 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 matter than can ever be recovered in the form (ff meat. Much of the food value is lost in the animal’s process of digestion and cell replacement. 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 as one can consume from the carcass. As a system for feeding the hungry, the effects can prove disastrous. At times of crisis, grain is the food of life.
Nevertheless, the huge increase in poultry production throughout Asia and Africa continues. Normally British or US firms are involved. For instance, an American based multinational company(跨国公司)has this year announced its involvement in projects in several African countries. Britain’s largest suppliers of chickens, Ross Breeders, are also involved in projects all over the world.
Because such trade is good for exports, Western governments encourage it. In 1979, a firm in Bangladesh called Phoenix Poultry received a grant to set up a unit of 6,000 chickens and 18,000 laying hens. lifts almost doubled the number of poultry kept in the country all at once.
But Bangladesh lacks capital, energy and food and has large numbers of unemployed. Such chickenraising demands capital for building and machinery, extensive use of energy resources for automation(自动化), and involves feeding chickens with potential famine-relief 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?
In this passage the author argues that ______.
选项
A、efficiency must be raised in the poultry industry
B、raising poultry can provide more protein than growing grain
C、factory fanning will do more harm than good to developing countries
D、hungry nations may benefit from the development of the poultry industry
答案
C
解析
主旨题。本题问的是:文章中作者的观点是______。纵观全文,第1段中作者认为农业生产工厂化不仅没有解决那些受饥饿困扰国家的营养不良问题,反而加剧了这一问题。第2段中作者认为大规模集中的肉类和家禽的生产是对食物的浪费,并在第6段中举了盂加拉国的例子,养鸡需要粮食,可是这个国家还是缺粮国需要进口大量的粮食,因此,大规模集中饲养对发展中国家的坏处多于好处,故选C。
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