Question

According to Eric Schlosser, the beef industry in the United States is...

                        a) highly profitable

                        b) highly consolidated

                        c) lucrative for farmers and ranchers

                        d) declining due to the rise of veganism.

Answer 1

According to Eric Schlosser, the beef industry is huge in the United States with enormous size with as many as 100,000 cattle in a single place. Also, the industry is different in the current era with a lot of technological advances in slaughterhouses.

Note that throughout the article and interview, Eric focuses more on the food safety issue that arises out of these big slaughterhouses at the same time also mentions the size and consolidated industry in different forms.

Thus, Option B is the correct answer.