A Healthy Appetite for World Markets
An English schoolgirl who was asked in the 1980s what she associated with Denmark,replied:“pig,pig,bacon,pig".This may not be an uncommon image,but there is much more both to modern Denmark and to its food industry.
Though it rears than 20 million pigs a year and still provides the best-selling imported bacon in Britain,Denmark,with only 5 million people,produces enough food for three times that number.It also has a large share of world markets in other areas apart from pigmeat where it has specialised such as cheese and fresh and frozen fish.The rise of the primary food industries-pigmeat,dairy products and fish-has been accompanied,too,by the development of in associated industries,many of them world leaders.
The strong position which the country holds in the food industry goes back a long way.Denmark was one of a few countries in Europe which did not react to the challenge of cheap American corn in the 1870s by raising import barriers.Instead,its farmers had to find alternative sources of income,and as a result,developed a lucrative market exporting butter,eggs and bacon to the UK.
The country's food and food technology industry has never looked back.Since entry into the then European Community further support for Denmark's primary agricultural industry has come from the common agricultural policy,which subsidizes exports to non-member countries.
Denmark could products enough food for as many as 20 million people.
A、正确
B、错误
【正确答案】：B
【名师解析】:题目中提到，丹麦虽然每年饲养超过2000万头猪，并且仍然是英国进口培根的最畅销来源，但丹麦只有500万人口，却能生产足够15倍于其人口数量的食物。然而，题目的陈述是“丹麦能够生产足够2000万人的食物”，这与文中提到的“三倍于其人口数量”相矛盾。因此，题目的陈述是错误的，正确答案为选项B。
