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factory farming
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factory farming
a farming system in which industrial procedures are utilized, e.g. animals in crates moving past a fixed feeding point at prearranged intervals, battery accommodation, debeaking, single animal accommodation with no physical contact between animals.
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The Humane Society and eight other organizations have petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to limit emissions of the greenhouse gases methane and nitrous oxide, as well as emissions of other air pollutants, from concentrated animal feeding operations.
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