How to Use factory farm in a Sentence

factory farm

noun

• Meanwhile, factory farms, which were newish in 1975, have swept the globe.
  — Elizabeth Barber, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2023
• This displaces the torture from the hunt to a factory farm visitors do not see.
  — Martha C. Nussbaum, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2022
• All the group needed was a factory farm to test the technology.
  — Wendee Nicole, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2014
• On factory farms, chickens are slaughtered at about 14 weeks of age.
  — Kyle Arnold, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 May 2018
• Why is your pet hamster thought of differently than a pig in the factory farm?
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2011
• The Crowd Cow website claims its steaks taste the way meat did before factory farms existed.
  — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 22 May 2018
• Haaland does not so much harvest goals as factory farm them.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• Our farm is surrounded by 11 swine factory farms in a three-mile radius.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 14 June 2019
• The factory farms used to raise animals for their fur are no different.
  — Laura Pitcher, Teen Vogue, 3 Dec. 2019
• The farm is always a family farm, never a factory farm (a satisfying thought to viewers on the right and the left).
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2020
• So why the nugget? The idealistic might point out that U.S. farmers raised more than 9 billion chickens a year, much of them in factory farms.
  — Jonathan Kauffman, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2019
• Shoppers generally don’t get to meet the homeless trucker that brought their food from the factory farm to the grocery warehouse, nor the shrimper who lost a limb to a net hauler.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 19 Oct. 2020
• Over the past 20 years, a growing body of research has linked proximity to factory farms to various health risks.
  — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2020
• More than 50 billion land animals suffered and died on factory farms this year.
  — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 24 Dec. 2018
• In the same survey, a whopping 74% of respondents support a ban on new factory farms, a significant jump from just two years ago.
  — Daisy Freund, Treehugger, 21 Apr. 2023
• The state Department of Agriculture would need the approval of two-thirds of the board to draft rules regarding siting and expanding factory farms.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2020
• Growing chicken meat in a lab uses far less resources than raising live chickens on a factory farm.
  — Sarah Garone, Health, 30 June 2023
• There have been plenty of books chronicling the damage caused by factory farms, but his book is about how to solve animal farming itself.
  — Angela Chen, The Verge, 9 Nov. 2018
• The somewhat-controversial new face of milking sits on a side road about a mile away, where a herd of dozens of cows are rotated through a factory farm and milked essentially around the clock.
  — Darrel Rowland, The Enquirer, 15 Sep. 2020
• Will some have misgivings about meat that’s made in a reactor, instead of in a factory farm, like nature intended?
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Dec. 2020
• Animals raised on factory farms generate about 1 million tons of manure a day, Baur says.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2019
• The group said the protesters on Thursday night were trying to highlight an upcoming Smithfield Foods factory farm trial.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2022
• Dead animals from area factory farms are left to rot in open composting sheds, rather than using a rendering service.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 14 June 2019
• Like the converted, who hope for others to feel God’s love, so too do vegans hope for others to know a world other than the one darkened by factory farms—a world less cruel, more merciful.
  — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
• While the public fight has focused on food stamps, these lobbyists have pushed for changes that provide even more benefits to factory farms and corporations.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 18 May 2018
• And yet, Americans will eat an estimated 46 million turkeys on Thanksgiving, with most of the birds having been raised in factory farms.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2019
• But even with the settlements, there has been contention over the high concentration of factory farms in Kewaunee, and the growing number of private wells impacted by nitrate.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2024
• The overwhelming majority of animals raised for food are still raised on factory farms, where 50 billion animals lived and died this year.
  — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 24 Dec. 2018
• Conditions in factory farms provide a breeding ground for diseases, posing risks to animal welfare as well as to human health.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 3 May 2024
• At the urging of the pork industry, congressional Republicans want to use this year’s bill to undo what little progress the US has made in improving conditions for animals raised on factory farms.
  — Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 4 June 2024

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024