Definitions Of Factory Farming

• Factory farming is the practice of raising livestock in confinement at high stocking density, where a farm operates as a factory — a practice typical in industrial farming by agribusinesses.

• A factory farm is a highly intensive method of rearing animals characterised by keeping large numbers of animals indoors in confined spaces and feeding them processed foods, with the use of drugs to control diseases.

• A factory farm a system of large-scale industrialized and intensive agriculture that is focused on profit with animals kept indoors and restricted in mobility.

• The technique of capital intensive animal-raising in an artificial environment, used for chicken, egg, turkey, beef, veal and pork production. Animals are restrained in a controlled indoor environment and their food is brought to them. The building take on the appearance of industrial units.

• Factory farming is a system of farming which involves keeping animals indoors, often with very little space, and giving them special foods so that they grow more quickly or produce more eggs or milk.

• An industrialized system of producing meat, eggs, and milk in large-scale facilities where the animal is treated as a machine.