Smith counters that if you factor in the hidden cost of government corn subsidies, environment degradation, and decreased human health and animal welfare, grass-fed is the more cost-effective model.

史密斯反驳说，如果你把政府谷物补贴的隐藏成本、环境恶化以及人类健康和动物保护的减少考虑在内，那么草饲模式更具成本效益。

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Lots of developed countries fret about the cost of welfare, but-at least in western europe-britain is a special case.

许多发达国家都被社会福利的成本困扰，但是，至少在西欧，英国是一个特例。

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Trying to stop this process with trade barriers will ultimately prove counter-productive, with the cost showing in reduced growth and welfare for all countries.

试图利用贸易壁垒阻止这一进程最终将适得其反，代价将体现在所有国家出现增长放缓、福祉减少。

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If further tax increases are off the table and they certainly will be for the next five years or more the target for PM Noda must now become real old age welfare system cost cutting.

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The Industrial Revolution involved hugely painful economic and social dislocations though nearly everybody would now agree that the gains in human welfare were worth the cost.

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The voluntary provision of charity is economically an excellent thing, since it reduces the need for public welfare organisations that usually cost more to run.

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