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	Factory farming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Factory farming is a term used to describe a set of controversial practices in large-scale, intensive agriculture.
		Factory farming may also describe farms that grow fruits and vegetables as intensive monoculture crops, and applies to bees for honey production and fur-bearing animals for the fur trade when they are raised in similar intensive conditions.
		Environmentally, factory farming of crops is claimed to be responsible for loss of biodiversity, degradation of soil quality, soil erosion, food toxicity (pesticide residues) and pollution (through agrichemical build-ups, and use of fossil fuels for agrichemical manufacture and for farm machinery and long-distance distribution).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Factory_farming (2203 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Factory farming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Factory farms may be harmful to the environment if not properly regulated and managed due to the large quantities of waste produced.
		Factory Farming Our society is showered with images of happy animals living on farms where the cows graze in lush green fields and the chickens have the run of the barnyard.
		Factory farming began in the 1920s soon after the discovery of vitamins A and D; when these vitamins are added to feed, animals no longer require exercise and sunlight for growth.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Factory-farming (1033 words)

	Factory farming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Factory farming refers to large-scale, industrialized, intensive rearing of livestock, poultry and fish.
		The term factory farming is favored by environmental activists and organic consumer groups, and usually has a negative connotation.
		Critics claim that factory farming is inhumane, poses health risks, and causes environmental damage.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/f/fa/factory_farming.html (259 words)

	Factory farming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Factory farming is an informal reference to any intensive commercial form of agriculture that employs extreme growing techniques to produce the greatest ouput in the least space, usually with heavy use of and veterinary drugs.
		Factory farming is a pejorative term favored by environmental activists and organic consumer groups.
		Factory farms may be harmful to the environment if not properly regulated and managed due to the large quantities of manure produced.
	www.longmont.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Factory_farming (814 words)

	HFA [ F a c t o r y F a r m i n g ]
		Family farms are being squeezed out of business by their inability to raise the capital to compete with huge factory farms.
		Factory farms attempt to counter the ill effects of this intensive confinement by administering continuous doses of antibiotics and other drugs to the animals.
		Animals in factory farms are commonly infected with a number of pathogens capable of causing food-related illness and death that are transmitted to consumers in the flesh itself or through carcass contamination at the slaughterhouse.
	www.hfa.org /factory (1934 words)

	Factory Farms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Statistically, farm animals comprise more than 95% of all the animals in the country with whom we interact, and that staggering percentage does not even include the estimated ten billion aquatic animals killed for human consumption.
		The vast majority of U.S. farm animals are confined inside barren warehouses, overcrowded cages, or restrictive pens or stalls on factory farms.
		Factory dairy farms can hold thousands of cows in indoor stalls or on drylots that provide no protection from inclement weather and are characterized by filthy conditions.
	www.hsus.org /farm_animals/factory_farms (639 words)

	Factory Farming
		Factory farming distresses people because of the treatment of the animals; they are kept in unnatural conditions in terms of space, possible behaviors, and interactions with other animals.
		However, the proponents of factory farming are always considering the possibilities of extending their techniques, as the old-style small farm becomes a faded memory and farming becomes a larger and more complex industry, competing for finance from consumers and lenders.
		So, for every free-range hen scratching around the garden or farm (who, if she were able to bargain, might pay rent with her daily infertile egg), a corresponding male from her batch is enduring life in a broiler house or has already been subjected to slaughter or thrown away to die.
	www.animalliberationfront.com /Practical/FactoryFarm/farming.htm (3711 words)

	Factory Farming
		Farm animals (at least in our imagination) enjoy beautiful surroundings and lead natural lives that many humans would envy: cows grazing, chickens scratching on the ground, and pigs rooting in the field.
		Most farm animals do not live out their lives in the barnyard, but in huge, crowded confinement buildings--called "factory farms." "Factory farming" of animals means intense crowding in cages, barns, or stalls; systematic mutilation (dehorning, debeaking, etc.); complete disruption of "natural" behaviors; and intense discomfort during transportation of animals to the slaughterhouse.
		The pig factory is diametrically the opposite: their stalls are built on slatted floors over large pits into which urine and feces fall, creating an overwhelming stench.
	www.compassionatespirit.com /factory_farming.htm (1667 words)

	factory farming - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about factory farming
		Chickens for eggs and meat, and calves for veal are commonly factory farmed.
		Some countries restrict the use of antibiotics and growth hormones as aids to factory farming because they can persist in the flesh of the animals after they are slaughtered.
		For this reason, many people object to factory farming on moral as well as health grounds.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /factory+farming (234 words)

	PETA Media Center > Factsheets > Factory Farming: Mechanized Madness
		Farmed animals have no legal protection from horrific abuses that would be illegal if they were inflicted on dogs or cats: neglect, mutilations, genetic manipulation, and drug regimens that cause chronic pain and crippling, transport through all weather extremes, and inhumane slaughter.
		Because crowding creates a prime atmosphere for disease, animals on factory farms are fed and sprayed with huge amounts of pesticides and antibiotics, which remain in their bodies and are passed on to the people who eat them, creating serious human health hazards.
		Factory farms are harmful to the environment as well: Factory farms produce billions of pounds of manure a day, which ends up in lakes, rivers, and drinking water.
	www.peta.org /mc/factsheet_display.asp?ID=103 (1416 words)

	Animal Awareness / Factory Farming
		Almost all animals are now raised in factory farms where most animals never see the light of day, know the smell of fresh air, never spread their wings, or are able to even turn around.
		Not only are small farms a thing of the past, but also gone are the days when chickens and turkeys would grow at a normal rate and roam freely on a farm before they were killed for their flesh.
		The version of the Farm Bill that the Conference Committee comes up with is the version that is then presented to the president who then chooses to either sign the bill into law or veto it, thus returning the bill back to congress.
	www.animalawareness.org /pages/types_farming.html (2157 words)

	Towards Happier Meals: The Problem of Factory Farming in a Globalized World: Worldwatch Live Online Discussion
		Factory farming may not be the direct cause of the most recent outbreak of avian flu, but it is likely one of the many factors that has led to the disease's rapid spread and virulence.
		Factory farmed meat and other animal products are very resource intensive, using massive amounts of grain, water, andtibiotics, etc. Pasture-raised livestock, on the other hand, usually require very few additional inputs and provide an important source of fertilizer for mixed farming systems.
		Factory farms because they are usually owned by a large company can afford to cull or kill a flock of birds if they do become infected, while small farmers do not have the money to do that.
	www.worldwatch.org /live/discussion/114 (1584 words)

	Farm Aid: Help Stop Factory Farms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Factory farms, megafarms or Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)(i) claim to be the future of American farming.
		Factory farms crowd tens of thousands of farm animals under one roof which denies them many of their most basic behavioral and physical needs, creates stress and exposes the animals to many serious illnesses.
		In 1994, Farm Aid helped to kick-off the Campaign for Family Farms and the Environment, a national effort to stop factory farms and those commodity groups that work against the interests of family farmers.
	www.farmaid.org /site/PageServer?pagename=info_facts_factory (614 words)

	Matthew Scully
		Industrial livestock farming is among a whole range of animal-welfare concerns that extends from canned trophy-hunting to whaling to product testing on animals to all sorts of more obscure enterprises like the exotic-animal trade and the factory farming of bears in China for bile believed to hold medicinal and aphrodisiac powers.
		Factory farming is a predatory enterprise, absorbing profit and externalizing costs, unnaturally propped up by political influence and government subsidies much as factory-farmed animals are unnaturally sustained by hormones and antibiotics.
		In the case of factory farming, and the conservative’s blithe tolerance of it, the caricature is too close to the truth.
	www.matthewscully.com /fear_factories.htm (5764 words)

	Factory Farming: Debatabase - Debate Topics and Debate Motions
		âFactory farmingâ began in the 1920s after the discovery of vitamins A and D; when these vitamins are added to feed, animals no longer require exercise and sunlight for growth.
		The owners of factory farms do not pay these costs; they are paid by the communities in which these operations are located, by taxpayers, and by society as a whole.
		Factory farming is effectively ending the practice of healthier, traditional farming methods that were more in tune with nature, and which were the backbone of a whole rural way of life, now being destroyed.
	www.idebate.org /debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=301 (1328 words)

	Animal Awareness / Impacts of Factory Farming
		The living conditions of livestock on factory farms are so bad that they are routinely given antibiotics just to keep them from dying.
		This enables the factory farming industry to keep conditions deplorable without losing too much of their "product." But animals are living beings.
		At the same time, wasteful agricultural practices, such as the intensive livestock operations known as factory farming, are rapidly polluting and depleting the natural resources upon which all life depends.
	www.animalawareness.org /pages/types_farming_impacts.html (1521 words)

	Concepts, Issues & Cases:
		Factory farms with tens of thousands of pigs are sprouting up throughout the developing world.
		Factory farms are expanding into developing countries, bringing these nations a wealth of environmental and public health concerns, finds a new paper by the Worldwatch Institute.
		Economies of scale and rising demand have helped factory farms become the dominant force in meat production, but the environmental and health concerns of operations with capacities often in excess of one million animals are severe.
	www.edcnews.se /Cases/Factoryfarming.html (1089 words)

	FactoryFarm.org: Canada: Information & Resources
		This fact sheet, created by The Beyond Factory Farming Coalition, examines how the spread of Avian Flu can be controlled by focusing on intensive poultry operations and not the confinement of backyard flocks (which are erroneously assumed to be the prevalent flu vector).
		The Beyond Factory Farming Coalition's mission is to promote livestock production that supports food sovereignty, ecological, human and animal health, as well as sustainability and community viability and informed citizen/consumer choice.The website is written in both English and French.
		Farm towns have a distinct odor that residents are used to.
	www.factoryfarm.org /canada (1740 words)

	Factory farming and human health
		With disease-causing organisms so prevalent on factory farms, it is not surprising that farmers have resorted to the widespread use of antibiotics.
		So farmers, in a desperate battle to contain the bug-explosion on factory farms, and in order to maximise profits by pushing growth- rates ever faster and faster, are routinely dosing farm animals with a whole range of different types of antibiotics.
		Factory farming is pushing the world ever further into the post-antibiotic era, with all the crises that this may bring for human health.
	www.organicconsumers.org /madcow/factory6101.cfm (4477 words)

	Facts: Factory Farming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Factory farming began in the 1920s soon after the discovery of vitamins A and D; when these vitamins are added to feed, animals no longer require
		Their beaks and toes are cut off and the broiler houses are usually unlit to prevent fighting among the birds.
		In the U.S., almost 50% of all antibiotics are administered to farm animals.
	www.svida.org /FACTORYFARMS.html (993 words)

	World Watch Magazine May/June 2003: Worldwatch Institute News
		“Factory farming methods are creating a web of food safety, animal welfare, and environmental problems around the world, as large agribusinesses attempt to escape tighter environmental restrictions in the European Union and the U.S. by moving their animal production operations to less developed countries,” says Nierenberg.
		International regulations on factory farming and an improved process of zoning farms in economically viable places with the least environmental impact are only part of the solution, asserts Nierenberg.
		She also argues that the lessons of factory farming should prevent its continued expansion and should translate into the preservation of prosperous family farms where raising healthy, humanely treated animals is viewed as a form of affluence.
	www.worldwatch.org /press/news/2003/04/17 (560 words)

	Wisconsin Stewardship Network Factory Farm Issues Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Factory Farm Forum Aug. 11 In Eau Claire - Discussion focuses on the new face of Wisconsin Agriculture.
		Factory Farm or Family Farm - that is the question posed by this western Wisconsin couple.
		Statement from groups concerned with factory farming - released at a Dec. 2 news conference in Eau Claire by groups opposing the Primera Egg Factory Farm.
	www.wsn.org /factoryfarm/factoryfarmpage.html (1779 words)

	Sustainable Table: The Issues: Factory Farming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		These factory farms emphasize high volume and profit with little to no regard for human health, safe food, the environment, humane treatment of animals, and the rural economy.
		When asked which type of farm is more likely to care more about food safety and protecting the environment, 71% of Americans chose smaller scale family farms; only 15% chose large-scale industrial farms.
		If you are confronted with a factory farm in your area and would like to do something about it, read GRACE's online and printed booklet Guide to Confronting a CAFO.
	www.sustainabletable.org /issues/factoryfarming (813 words)

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