factory farming
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- noun
- /ˈfæktəri ˈfɑrmɪŋ/
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ganadería industrial
- The debate over factory farming highlights the issues of animal welfare and environmental damage.
- intensive factory farming
- factory farming methods
- factory farming practices
So killing animals food and they suffer in factory farming.
- So killing animals food and they suffer in factory farming.
- Well, given that factory farming is essentially how you know most Americans are getting their food.
- But also, I see myself as supporting a much better sort of operation than factory farming.
Examples
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Modern factory farming practices have helped the emergence of antibiotic resistance, outbreaks of food-borne illness and disease, and the contamination of water supplies, degradation of land, and loss of biodiversity.
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Ethical and organic rules out all sorts of factory farming yield-maximizing techniques.
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I am against mass factory farming, but I am also not in a position to turn down food when it is offered.
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You know, our, our cheap meat comes because of factory farming in large part, right?
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Well, given that factory farming is essentially how you know most Americans are getting their food.
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And how will factory farming evolve to combat this challenge as well as the challenge of climate change?
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We need to ban factory farming, we need to ban unsustainable commercial fishing.
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The Nez Perces lacked the financial muscle to compete with the capital-intensive requirements of factory farming.
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By caring about the quality of what we ingest, we opt out of brutal factory farming and toxic industrial agriculture, keeping excessive blood off our hands.
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Juliet Gellatley, founder and director of Viva!, said, “Three quarters of the world’s new and emerging infectious diseases come from animals, mainly from trading in wild life or from factory farming.
How Intensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'factory' (industrial production facility) and 'farming' (agriculture): it denotes farming organized on a factory-like, large-scale, industrial basis. This compositional logic is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would reliably infer the general meaning (large-scale, intensive agriculture).
Etymology
The term factory farming comes from the image of a factory on a farm: animals kept in very large buildings and treated like products on an assembly line. That's why it means 'large-scale, industrial animal farming' and is used when people worry about animal welfare and the environment.