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What does the hamburger say about our modern food economy? A lot, actually.
What does the hamburger say about our modern food economy? A lot, actually.
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2023-11-10
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What does the hamburger say about our modern food economy? A lot, actually. Over the past several years Waldo Jaquith intended to make a hamburger from scratch, to no avail. "Further (1)_____ revealed that it’s quite impractical— (2)_____ impossible—to make a hamburger from scratch," he writes. "Tomatoes are in season in the late summer. Lettuce is in season in spring and fall. Large mammals are(3)_____ in early winter. The process of making(4)_____ burger would take nearly a year and would inherently involve omitting some core hamburger(5)_____."
That the hamburger—our delicious and comforting everyman food—didn’t(6)_____ 100 years ago is a greasy, shiny example of all that is both right (7)_____ wrong with our modern food economy. (8)_____fertilizers, genetically modified crops, concentrated farming operations and global overnight shipping, much of the world was lifted out of starvation(9)_____ it could finally grow(10)_____ quantities of food with decreasing labor(11)_____.
But these same advances(12)_____ allow food to be grown out of(13)_____ and in all corners of the globe contribute to a whole host of environmental(14)_____. The "industrialization of food," as author Paul Roberts puts it, is an endless cycle driven by very small price(15)_____ that force food processors to(16)_____ more advanced techniques to produce even more food(17)_____ lower prices. This system will only be aggravated as food demand(18)_____. Recently David Tilman and Jason Hill of the University of Minnesota released a study(19)_____ that global food demand could double by 2050. It’s(20)_____ that our current, impractical food economy can sustain that demand. [br] (9)
选项
A、while
B、unless
C、because
D、if
答案
C
解析
空格后的句意为:用较少的劳动力最终生产出食物。这是空格前使大部分人免于挨饿的原因.故because正确。unless和if表条件;while表时间或对比。
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