A plant situated near a number of larger noncompliant competitors is less likely to attract the attention of local regulators than is an isolated plant, and less attention means lower costs.

与一个独立的工厂相比，坐落在许多不合规的大型竞争者附近的工厂不太可能引起当地监管机构的注意，而较少的关注意味着更低的成本。

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A car can be driven as far on a gallon of the new plant-based fuel as a car can be driven on a gallon of gasoline, but a gallon of the plant-based fuel both costs less and results in less pollution.

汽车使用一加仑这种新植物燃料或一加仑汽油可以开得一样远；但是一加仑植物燃料不但花费少，并且造成的污染更少。

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There were higher selective in light gazing because of the sufficient food supply and less selective in heavy grazing due to less plant species.

轻度放牧区食物充足，绵羊的选择性采食行为较明显，重度放牧区植物稀疏，食物匮乏；

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Fabian Fernandez, a soil and plant nutrition expert at the University of Illinois, says no-till means less intensive labor.

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Fat is not all that much different, but one thing that's happened is the type of fat has changed a lot, and so people are eating less fat from plant sources and more fat from animals sources That's where the saturated fat comes in and high saturated fat intake is not a good thing.

脂肪摄入量相差无几,然而脂肪的种类却发生了很大变化,人们越来越少从植物中摄取脂肪,而更多是从肉类食物中获得,肉类食物中含有饱和脂肪酸,而过多地摄入饱和脂肪酸是有害的

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It would happen only if a certain gene from the crop confers a selective advantage on the recipient--an occurrence that should be uncommon with biopharming, where most often the added gene would make the plant less fit and less able to proliferate.

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They require less expensive plant and equipment than, for instance, highway construction.

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