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- 4. New ________ allowed farmers to work larger areas of land with less labor
- 7. Feeding the drugs to animals caused them to gain weight faster and on less feed
- 8. ______ fertilizer applications on U.S. crops nearly doubled
- 9. As a result of consolidation, most food production in the U.S. now takes place on ______ scale operations.
- 10. Animals designed for a single outcome—large breast meat, for example, or increased milk production
- 11. The shift toward fewer and larger farms,
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- 1. The use of chemical and pharmaceutical inputs in agriculture offered gains in _________, but not without health and ecological consequences.
- 2. This Secretary of Agriculture told owners of small, struggling farmers to "get or get out" in order to make room for the more profitable farms.
- 3. This meant routine jobs like sowing seeds, harvesting crops, milking cows, and feeding and slaughtering animals could be _______, reducing the need for human and animal labor
- 4. Between 1900 and 2000, the share of the U.S. workforce involved in agriculture declined from 41 percent to __ percent
- 5. Major U.S. crops increased by 143 percent due to the use of _____.
- 6. Increased efficiency by narrowing the range of tasks and roles involved in production