便宜的粮食，和便宜的石油，恐怕都是很遥远的往事了。
但是，到底还有多少可以做的事，目前尚不明朗。便宜的粮食，和便宜的石油，恐怕都是很遥远的往事了。
But it's not clear how much can be done. Cheap food, like cheap oil, may be a thing of the past.
这是因为要建造和维持这些农场的开销相当大（因为它们大都建在高租金地段），且其他地方生产的粮食也相对便宜。
This is because they are costly to develop and maintain (since they are in high-rent areas) and the product—food—is already made cheaply elsewhere.
而现在伊拉克正越来越多的进口粮食。伴着气愤又绝望的情绪沿岸的农民说他们不得不放弃安巴尔大米而选择其他更便宜的食物。
Now Iraq is importing more and more grain. Farmers along the Euphrates say, with anger and despair, that they may have to abandon Anbar rice for cheaper varieties.
低价的粮食导致了它们被用于工业，便宜的快餐，更恐怖的是，粮食被用来喂牛。
Cheap corn has led to industrial USES, cheap fast food, and, horror of horrors, corn fed to cows.
如果电影“食品公司”有一个主题的话，那会是：粮食的价格太便宜了。
If the movie "Food, Inc." can be said to have a theme, it is that corn is too cheap.
尽管国际市场的粮食那么便宜，收入不断减少和汇率下降影响了人们购买粮食的能力。
Eroding purchasing power through a combination of falling incomes and real exchange rates afflicts the affordability of food, however cheap it has become on the international marketplace.
大多数人仍能记得粮食越来越便宜，农业不断正在走上坡路。
For as long as most people can remember, food has been getting cheaper and farming has been in decline.
其它因素也让粮食价格得到了抑制。从事畜牧业的农民正用便宜的饲料代替小麦喂养家禽。较低的石油价格消减了运输成本同时降低了以粮食为基础的生物燃料的需求。
Other factors should dampen prices, too. Livestock farmers are substituting cheaper feedstocks for wheat. The oil price is lower, cutting transport costs and demand for grain-based biofuels.
描述：幼发拉底河沿岸的农民说，他们可能不得不放弃种植安巴尔大米，该地区一种因价格便宜而引国人自豪的价值较高的粮食。
Caption: Farmers along the Euphrates say that they may have to abandon Anbar rice, a higher value grain that commands patriotic pride in the area, for cheaper varieties.
描述：幼发拉底河沿岸的农民说，他们可能不得不放弃种植安巴尔大米，该地区一种因价格便宜而引国人自豪的价值较高的粮食。
Caption: Farmers along the Euphrates say that they may have to abandon Anbar rice, a higher value grain that commands patriotic pride in the area, for cheaper varieties.
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