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factory farm

British  

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

"And your decision today, if you make a good one, will make the world a little bit of a kinder place, even for a baby pig of a factory farm."

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2022

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

From Fox News ● Nov. 28, 2021

The factory farm produces more food much faster than the old solar-based farm.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

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