Factory farming

Factory farming can refer to any intensive commercial form of agriculture that employs extreme growing techniques to produce the greatest ouput in the least space, usually with heavy use of agrichemicals and veterinary drugs. It most often refers to large-scale, industrialized, intensive rearing of livestock, poultry, and fish. The practice is widespread in developed nations — much of the meat, dairy, and eggs available in supermarkets are produced in this manner.

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Agriculture - Agrichemicals - Veterinary - Drugs - Industrialize - Livestock - Poultry - Fish - Developed nation - Meat - Dairy - Egg - Supermarket

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The term is also used in reference to fruits and vegetables grown as intensive monoculture crops, to bees for honey production, and fur-bearing animals for the fur trade that are raised in similar intensive conditions.

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Fruit - Vegetable - Monoculture - Bee - Honey - Fur - Animal

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Factory farming is a pejorative term, but as is shown in Jennifer Abbott's documentary, A Cow At My Table, the expression originated within the agricultural industry itself.

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Jennifer Abbott - A Cow At My Table - Agricultural

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