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Factory Farms Explained

Modern Farmer

That’s how a farmer who used to work for Perdue described his chicken house—a sight so upsetting that it led him to transition out of this kind of work, often referred to as “factory farming.” But industrial animal agriculture comes with a lot of downsides. Advocates would not equate large-scale CAFOs with farming at all.

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