TEXT A Not content with its
doubtful claim to produce cheap food for our own population, the factor, farming
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 farming has,
inevitably aggravated 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 of 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 than 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 has this year announced its
involvement in projects in several African countries. Britain’ s largest
suppliers 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. This
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 chicken-raising demands capital for building and machinery,
extensive use of energy resources for automation, 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 What the last paragraph tells us is the author’s______.
A．detailed analysis of the ways of raising poultry in Bangladesh B．great appreciation of the development of poultry industry in Bangladesh C．critical view on the development of the poultry industry in Bangladesh D．practical suggestion for the improvement of the poultry industry in Bangladesh