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factory farm

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a factory farm
factory farming - a system for producing eggs, meat, and milk quickly and cheaply by keeping animals in small closed areas and giving them food which makes them grow quickly. The use of antibiotics in some factory farms has been linked to the recent increase in food poisoning.
See also: factory, farm
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Peter Singer and Jim Mason disagree, and in The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter (Rodale Books, 2006) the co-authors focus on the ways industrial agriculture (and factory farms in particular) harm and abuse billions of animals each year.
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