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These eggs, which are making their debut now on shelves for as much as $8 a dozen, are still labeled organic and animal-friendly, but they’re also from birds that live on farms using regenerative agriculture — special techniques to cultivate rich soils that can trap greenhouse gases.

这些鸡蛋如今正以每打高达8美元的价格首次上架，它们仍然贴着有机和动物友好的标签，但它们还来自生活在采用再生农业的农场里的鸡——再生农业是一种培育能够锁住温室气体的肥沃土壤的特殊技术。

The egg industry’s push is the first major test of whether animal products from regenerative farms can become the next premium offering.

鸡蛋行业的这一推动，是对再生农场的动物产品能否成为下一个高端产品的首次重大考验。

on specially designed farms.

在经过特别设计的农场里

That supplies 80 percent of what is consumed, so even covering the whole country in livestock farms wouldn’t allow us to cover all our meat and dairy needs.

这满足了80%的消费量，所以即使全国都变成畜牧场，也无法满足我们对肉类和奶制品的全部需求。

The complaints are unlikely to stop without an overhaul of immigration rules for farm workers.

如果不对农业工人的移民规定进行彻底改革，这些抱怨不太可能停止。

Perhaps half of U.S. farm laborers are undocumented immigrants.

美国农场劳工中或许有一半是无证移民。

Britain has relatively few butterfly species compared with mainland Europe and 80% are in decline, mostly because intensive chemical farming has reduced many species to tiny fragments of habitat and small nature reserves.

与欧洲大陆相比，英国的蝴蝶种类相对较少，而且其中80%正在减少，这主要是因为集约化的化学农业使许多物种只能栖身于零星的小块栖息地和小型自然保护区。

Such farming also brings minimal, if any, improvement to the food products (though some producers say their eggs have more protein).

这种耕作方式给食品本身带来的改善即便有也微乎其微（尽管一些生产商说他们的鸡蛋含有更多蛋白质）。

Half of the students in four large philosophy classes read an article on the ethics of factory-farmed meat, optionally watched an 11-minute video on the topic and joined a 50-minute discussion.

在四个大型哲学班中，一半学生阅读了一篇关于工厂化养殖肉类伦理问题的文章，可选择性地观看了一段关于该话题的11分钟视频，并参加了50分钟的讨论。

A move back to self-sufficiency, the argument goes, would boost the farming industry, political sovereignty and even the nation’s health.

这种观点认为，回归自给自足将促进农业、增强政治主权，甚至改善国民健康。

To become much more self-sufficient, the UK would need to drastically reduce its consumption of animal foods, and probably also farm more intensively — meaning fewer green fields and more factory-style production.

要大幅提高自给率，英国需要大幅减少动物性食品的消费，可能还要进行更集约化的耕作——这意味着更少的绿地和更多工厂式的生产。

pose a challenge to its farming industry.

对农业构成挑战。

Just as some ants farm the bugs called aphids for the honeydew they produce when they feed, so Google farms us for the data that our digital lives yield.

正如一些蚂蚁饲养名为蚜虫的小虫，以获取它们进食时分泌的蜜露一样，谷歌“饲养”我们，以获取我们数字生活所产生的数据。

Just as some ants farm the bugs called aphids for the honeydew they produce when they feed, so Google farms us for the data that our digital lives yield.

正如一些蚂蚁饲养名为蚜虫的小虫，以获取它们进食时分泌的蜜露一样，谷歌“饲养”我们，以获取我们数字生活所产生的数据。