noun

• A system of rearing livestock using intensive methods, by which poultry, pigs, or cattle are confined indoors under strictly controlled conditions.

  ‘Nor is a return to ‘primitive’ farming practices the only alternative to factory farming and highly intensive agriculture.’

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  • ‘Intensive factory farming has happened because of this demand for cheap food.’
  • ‘The mountains of manure that factory farming generates foul our air and water, disrupting ecosystems and sickening rural communities.’
  • ‘She says gardening is a good introduction to issues such as factory farming, pesticides and genetically modified food.’
  • ‘Laboratories using new tissue engineering technology might be able to produce meat that is healthier for consumers and cut down on pollution produced by factory farming, researchers said.’