factory farm
noun
: a large industrialized farm
especially
: a farm on which large numbers of livestock are raised indoors in conditions intended to maximize production at minimal cost
factory farming
noun
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Farm fires and how to put them out Virtually all animals raised for meat, dairy, and eggs in the US are raised on factory farms, where thousands to tens of thousands of animals are crammed together in large warehouses.
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Kenny Torrella, Vox, 16 Sep. 2024
For decades, animal advocates have argued fiercely over the value of incremental reforms to the factory farm system like, say, banning the most extreme forms of cage confinement.
—Jishnu Guha-Majumdar, Vox, 8 Aug. 2024
It is now forbidden to use great apes in biomedical research, to bullfight in Catalonia, and to operate factory farms and slaughterhouses without adhering to the stricter rules governing the treatment and living conditions of livestock.
—Steven M. Wise, Foreign Affairs, 28 Apr. 2015
In the bird flu outbreak of the last few years, the AVMA has played a central role in enabling factory farms’ dependence on ventilation shutdown plus (VSD+), a method being used to mass cull chickens and turkeys on farms hit with bird flu by heating them to death in sealed sheds.
—Crystal Heath, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024
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Kenny Torrella, Vox, 16 Sep. 2024
For decades, animal advocates have argued fiercely over the value of incremental reforms to the factory farm system like, say, banning the most extreme forms of cage confinement.
—Jishnu Guha-Majumdar, Vox, 8 Aug. 2024
It is now forbidden to use great apes in biomedical research, to bullfight in Catalonia, and to operate factory farms and slaughterhouses without adhering to the stricter rules governing the treatment and living conditions of livestock.
—Steven M. Wise, Foreign Affairs, 28 Apr. 2015
In the bird flu outbreak of the last few years, the AVMA has played a central role in enabling factory farms’ dependence on ventilation shutdown plus (VSD+), a method being used to mass cull chickens and turkeys on farms hit with bird flu by heating them to death in sealed sheds.
—Crystal Heath, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024
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“Factory farm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factory%20farm. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.
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