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factory farm

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noun

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

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Antibiotic-resistant infections already kill more than 35,000 people in the U.S. annually, and factory farms are some of the most fruitful breeding grounds for new ones.

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In other words, the bill would ban factory farms.

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We cage billions of hens, giving them less space than a sheet of paper for their eggs on factory farms.

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Some learned about the brutal conditions animals face in factory farms, and said they didn't want to contribute.

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Today's factory farms are monuments to humanity's unprecedented technological sophistication and our seemingly limitless capacity for cruelty.

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