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NL888 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Does "finish" here mean "complete" or "refuse to work"?
Context:
“What I don’t like is some big restaurant chain in Chicago that knows nothing about raising animals is telling us how to raise pigs,” said Glen Keppy, a retired pig farmer whose sons finish raising Mr. Dittmer’s pigs for market, referring to McDonald’s, which promised in February to stop buying pork from pigs born in gestation crates. “Would they tell Microsoft how to make computers?”
“What I don’t like is some big restaurant chain in Chicago that knows nothing about raising animals is telling us how to raise pigs,” said Glen Keppy, a retired pig farmer whose sons finish raising Mr. Dittmer’s pigs for market, referring to McDonald’s, which promised in February to stop buying pork from pigs born in gestation crates. “Would they tell Microsoft how to make computers?”
Top answer
To 'finish raising' domestic animals means to raise them only in the later stages of growth. His sons do not have sows that give birth to piglets which they raise; the sons get partly-grown pigs and feed them carefully to fatten them for market.
- To 'finish raising' domestic animals means to raise them only in the later stages of growth.
- His sons do not have sows that give birth to piglets which they raise; the sons get partly-grown pigs and feed them carefully to fatten them for market.
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To 'finish raising' domestic animals means to raise them only in the later stages of growth. His sons do not have sows that give birth to piglets which they raise; the sons get partly-grown pigs and feed them carefully to fatten them for market.
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