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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Concerns about Iowa's water quality have pushed three environmental groups to ask the federal government to strip the Iowa Department of Natural Resources of authority to issue operating permits to concentrated animal feeding operations. I am pleased that the National Pork Board has read the Mini-Monograph on Environmental Health Impacts of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) (Bunton et al. Another is environmental and political opposition to confined animal feeding operations. |
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