Meat Without the Animal

C2 Proficiency · Word Formation · Cambridge Ready original exercise

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).

ETHIC

DRASTIC

ORDINARY

ECONOMY

SCRUPULOUS

WEIGH

APPETITE

CONVINCE

Cultivated meat, grown from a handful of animal cells in steel tanks and once the stuff of science fiction, is now (0) ___ available in a small number of countries. Its proponents present it as an (1) ___ unimpeachable alternative to factory farming, one that would spare billions of animals while (2) ___ reducing the (3) ___ quantities of land and water that livestock currently consume. Sceptics, however, question whether the technology can ever be scaled up (4) ___ . Cells must be fed an expensive nutrient broth that has to be kept (5) ___ clean, since a single stray bacterium can ruin an entire batch, and the energy needed to run vast bioreactors may well (6) ___ the environmental gains. Then there is the matter of whether diners will find a product grown in a laboratory even remotely (7) ___ . Surveys suggest that a sizeable proportion of consumers remain (8) ___ , regarding the whole enterprise as unnatural, and several governments have moved to ban its sale outright, often to the evident relief of their farming lobbies.

Meat Without the Animal

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