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#3) "But is this simply part of the order of nature? Is it because this land of ours is so poor that it cannot afford a decent life to those who dwell upon it? No comrades, a thousand times no! The soil of England is fertile, its climate is good, it is capable of affording food in abundance to an enormously greater number of animals than now inhabit it. This single farm of ours would support a dozen horses , twenty cows, hundreds of sheep-and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are now almost beyond our imagining. Why then do we continue in this miserable condition? Because nearly the whole of the produce of our labour is stolen from us by human beings. There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-Man. Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.
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Freya
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The passage suggests that the root cause of the animals' misery and the lack of abundance on the farm is human exploitation. It argues that the land is fertile and capable of sustaining a larger population of animals in comfort and dignity. The problem lies in humans taking away the fruits of the animals' labor, leading to hunger and overwork. Thus, removing humans from the equation is proposed as the solution to these problems.