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including what I think of as industrial agriculture.

包括我认为是工业化农业的部分
The majority of our food is highly processed.

我们食物的绝大多数都是高度加工过的
It is chemically dependent, particularly on fertilizers

这是依赖化学制品的尤其是肥料
and pesticides and preservatives and dyes of different sorts.

杀虫剂防腐剂以及各种染料
So what does that mean?

这意味着什么呢
The food packaging industry is increasingly of interest to me

我对食品包装行业的兴趣越来越浓
in my own research.

在我自己的研究中
So I'll share with you several ideas

因此我会和你们分享不少想法
about how plastics make their way into your life.

关于塑料制品如何进入你们生活的
Right now, the synthetic chemical industry is dominated

目前合成化工产业被塑料工业支配着
by the plastics industry; it constitutes seventy percent

塑料工业构成了美国
of the synthetic chemical industry in the United States.

合成化工产业中的百分之七十