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Sarunnio Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

The very methods

In the West at least, most food is now far cheaper to buy in relative terms than it was in 1960. The cost is in the collateral damage of the very methods of food production that have made the food cheaper: in the pollution of water, the destruction of wildlife, the harm to animal welfare and the threat to human health caused by modern industrial agriculture.

I don't quite understand the underlined "the very methods of food production". Can anyone pls interpret its meaning for me?

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"the very methods of food production" "The cost is in" is not speaking of buying the food, but of the damage to the earth. There's probably some reference to the lower cost of food in prior context. " The very (same) weapon you are using against your enemy is what ends up killing you.

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  • "the very methods of food production" "The cost is in" is not speaking of buying the food, but of the damage to the earth.
  • There's probably some reference to the lower cost of food in prior context.
  • " The very (same) weapon you are using against your enemy is what ends up killing you.
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"the very methods of food production"

"The cost is in" is not speaking of buying the food, but of the damage to the earth.

There's probably some reference to the lower cost of food in prior context.
The same things which have made this lower cost possible (a good thing) are the things
which are causing expensive da
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