factory farms

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• factory farm — UK US noun [C] PRODUCTION ► a building or set of buildings in which a lot of animals are kept in small spaces and fed particular types of food in order to produce meat and other animal products quickly and cheaply: »About 9.5 million hogs are… …   Financial and business terms

• Factory farming — A commercial chicken house raising broiler pullets for meat …   Wikipedia

• factory farm — noun a large scale farming enterprise • Syn: ↑agribusiness, ↑agriculture • Derivationally related forms: ↑agriculturist (for: ↑agriculture) • Hypernyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• (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… …   New idioms dictionary

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• Knob Hill Farms — was a supermarket chain in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by Steve Stavro, and operated from 1951 to 2001. Community grocery storesStavro s father operated Louis Meat Market in Toronto from the 1930s to the 1950s. By… …   Wikipedia

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• Industrial agriculture (animals) — Industrial animal agriculture is a modern form of intensive farming that refers to the industrialized production of livestock, including cattle, poultry (in battery farms ) and fish. Most of the meat, dairy and eggs available in supermarkets are… …   Wikipedia

• Granja factoría — A commercial chicken house raising broiler pullets for meat. Factory fa …   Wikipedia Español