factory farm

British  

noun

1. a farm in which animals are bred and fattened using modern industrial methods

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• factory farming
  noun

Example Sentences

That should make its appearance on a mammal-based factory farm a cause for doubled-down surveillance and concern, said Crystal Heath, a Bay Area veterinarian and co-founder of Our Honor, an animal welfare organization.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2024

His father, Ali, who raised him alone after immigrating to America to work in a Midwest chicken factory farm, died when he was in college.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2024

Let’s try to grow it in a lab so that people can still have their hamburgers, but it just doesn’t involve factory farm —

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2023

Providing those conditions would be a foundational change that flies in the face of the factory farm model, however, and the mainstream pork industry is correct that it would be an expensive one.

From Salon • Nov. 11, 2022

And the place they are fed is the American factory farm.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan