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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

“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

Providing those conditions would be a foundational change that flies in the face of the factory farm model, however, and the mainstream pork industry is correct that it would be an expensive one.

From Salon • Nov. 11, 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

In response to the horrors of the factory farm, becoming a vegetarian seems pretty reasonable.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan