How To Use Factory farm In A Sentence
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For me the abysmal treatment of chickens in factory farming is a far bigger issue.
Times, Sunday Times
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If it's factory farming that's turned you into a vegetarian, I'm afraid veganism is really the only way to go.
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These days it's all factory farms and abattoirs and battery chickens, but in the old days farming was much more personal and friendly.
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Factory farms are also major contributors to the increasing risk of forborne illness in the U.S. poultry has been and remains the number one culprit, they fuel the growth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and causes unthinkable suffering for animals.
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A factory farm stood silent and abandoned, hedges of elders dripped berries and were decorated with white trumpets of bindweed.
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Factory farming has turned the cow into a milk machine, producing anything from 25 to 40 litres of milk per day.
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Universities are, crudely, factory farms for social liberalism.
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Chickens, pigs and other animals raised on factory farms are treated like machines.
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The mountains of manure that factory farming generates foul our air and water, disrupting ecosystems and sickening rural communities.
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Factory farming has turned the cow into a milk machine, producing anything from 25 to 40 litres of milk per day.
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Factory farming has no traditions, no rules, no codes of honor, no little decencies to spare for a fellow creature.
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Nor is a return to ‘primitive’ farming practices the only alternative to factory farming and highly intensive agriculture.
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Large, high-density cattle farms and factory farming methods for hogs and chickens have become the norm in North America, replacing many smaller farms.
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Other factory farms scrape up manure from chicken houses and pigpens, adding it directly to chicken feed.
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It is not small food production, but large-scale factory farming, that presents a threat to our health.
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One way or the other, when it comes to factory farms, I'm going to get my fie on.
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Manure from factory farms has been linked to diseases such as E. coli, listeria, and cryptosporidium.
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The mentality that now promotes the cloning of farm animals is no different from the one that championed factory farming and chicken nuggets.
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That said, of course the other area of factory farming is intensive piggeries, and broiler farms.
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The rise of factory farms, growing human populations along the coast, and discharge of garbage into the oceans are some of the other threats to sea turtles.
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Most Americans are dead set against cruelty to animals on factory farms and the concomitant devastation of the environment, even if it were to save them a few cents at the market.
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Dirty, crowded conditions on factory farms can propagate sickness and disease among the animals, including swine influenza (H1N1), avian influenza (H5N1), foot-and-mouth disease, and mad-cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
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It needs Flash and sound to get the full effect, but underneath the excellent animation is a great site concerned with factory farming and local food production.
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The mentality that now promotes the cloning of farm animals is no different from the one that championed factory farming and chicken nuggets.
Times, Sunday Times
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Factory farms feed dairy and beef cattle on grain, not their natural diet of grass.
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It is surely inevitable that in order to provide a safe food supply, we must dispense with factory farms, and other intensive food production enterprises, and return to small-scale, cruelty-free food production geared to local demand.
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Consumer pressure is being put upon the food industry to cut down on factory farming methods.
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Such factory farming is efficient only in the narrow sense that it produces quick profits for farmers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Supporters of the idea of man-made meat, such as Stellan Welin, a bioethicist at Linkoping University in Sweden, say this is no less appealing than mass-producing livestock in factory farms where growth hormones and antibiotics are commonly used to boost yields and profits.
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Picking up the threads of our discussion, let's return to the topic of factory farming.
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Instead of millions of vulnerable hosts to evolve within back then, we now have billions of chickens intensively confined in factory farms, arguably the Perfect Storm environment for the emergence and spread of hypervirulent, so-called "predator-type" viruses like H5N1.
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Today, institutions as diverse as the American Medical Association; the Centers for Disease Control; the Institute of Medicine, a division of the National Academy of Sciences; and the World Health Organization have linked nontherapeutic antibiotic use on factory farms with increased antimicrobial resistance and called for a ban.
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The mentality that now promotes the cloning of farm animals is no different from the one that championed factory farming and chicken nuggets.
Times, Sunday Times
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These are old fashioned meat processing plants where they process a few animals a day, not thousands, as in factory farms.
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He's got a bee in his bonnet about factory farming.
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Universities are, crudely, factory farms for social liberalism.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because of the high cost of grain, transportation and feed-lotting --- outside of a nuclear plant, there are very few things more destructive of the planet than a factory farm.
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He's got a bee in his bonnet about factory farming.
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That would eliminate some of the loopholes exploited by large, wealthy factory farms.
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Factory farming has turned the cow into a milk machine, producing anything from 25 to 40 litres of milk per day.
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In an effort to make factory farming less appealing, they petitioned the EPA in September to force emissions from the manure at confined animals operations such as dairies to comply with the Clean Air Act. The clout amassed by the organization with a $157 million annual budget means it sometimes can score victories without mounting a fight.
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A factory farm stood silent and abandoned, hedges of elders dripped berries and were decorated with white trumpets of bindweed.
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Martinez, who is also an artist dedicated to micro architectural structures i.e. small farms, created a home mealworm farm called Wurmhaus as a nod to the Bauhaus humanist approach and a reaction to "contemporary agriculture and the practices of large-scale factory farms".
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The reason a hurried "Oh, I hardly eat meat either" has become such a popular response to another's declaration of vegetarianism is usually not that we mean it, but that we now know enough about factory farming to want to stop Scully types from telling us any more.
Nasty, Brutish, and Short
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The waste produced by industrial concentrations of animals in stockyards and factory farms continues to strain sewage facilities.
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He claims that pheasant and partridge are neither wild nor natural and are not an alternative to factory farmed meat.
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Factory farming is necessary to feed a hungry world.
Times, Sunday Times
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Very few people understand that when you are purchasing an animal that is raised in a factory farm, you're basically saying: I approve, do it again.
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The high population density, extensive factory farming and increased antibiotic drug resistance put us in the front line.
The Sun
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He's got a bee in his bonnet about factory farming.
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Factory farming is necessary to feed a hungry world.
Times, Sunday Times
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He says that 200,000-acre factory farms fit his vision of what agriculture should be.
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Factory farming is necessary to feed a hungry world.
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Factory farming has turned the cow into a milk machine, producing anything from 25 to 40 litres of milk per day.
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We have just seen with Type A influenza that modern "agrobusiness" is now going to "breed" increasing numbers of epidemics on "factory farms" (the American Epidemiological Association has called for them to be banned for that reason).
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Even if you don’t think going veg is morally required (as I don’t), buy eco & humanely raised meat. this too creates a culture where animal welfare and enviro concerns are seen as important and economically supports a network of farms and businesses that are a positive alternative to the nightmare that is factory farming.
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Consider the conditions which prevail on factory farms - for example, in intensive boiler chicken sheds.