factory farming
- a word derived from factory farm.
Example Sentences
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The promise of lab-grown meat is that it would reduce our reliance on growing animals in factory-farming conditions, which pollute the air and waterways on top of emitting lots of greenhouse gases.
From Salon • Jan. 30, 2025
Animal welfare groups did such a good job at spotlighting the animal abuse on industrial egg farms that many urban dwellers were inspired to raise backyard hens to boycott factory-farming cruelty.
From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2018
Now, Ansari has emerged as one of the most original voices on the circuit, a social chronicler of his age talking about immigration, factory-farming and relationships.
From The Guardian • Jun. 7, 2015
This animated short depicts a fictional factory-farming operation called Crow Foods—a behemoth that injects chickens with strange chemicals and locks cows in dark cages.
From Slate • Oct. 3, 2014
"Education these days is like factory-farming chickens," he says.
From Newsweek • Feb. 11, 2010
