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

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

“We’re rescuing sick chickens from a factory farm that has a history of abusing them,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2023

I went to the next room and he had me watch this undercover footage of a factory farm.

From Fox News • Nov. 28, 2021

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

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan