factory farm
Noun
Meaning
a large-scale farming enterprise
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According to a recent study conducted by Iowa State University, a factory farm employee who has been employed for five years has a 50% chance of suffering a serious injury and 70% of factory farm workers have respiratory diseases.
Smithfield smeared: The Mexican government’s chief epidemiologist said it’s “highly improbable” that the Smithfield-operated Veracruz factory farm is responsible for the nation’s swine-flu outbreak.
The reviewer notes that Stuart himself is not a vegetarian, but “opposes the ecological impact of the factory farm, rather than meat itself, which he eats when he can be satisfied that the animals were reared and killed sensitively.”
Sure we can say that those who are impoverished can't afford to eat a lot of meat unless they buy from a factory farm.