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factory farming
(redirected from Battery chickens)

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factory farming n (Brit) → allevamento su scala industriale
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But they don't and most of us can distance ourselves quite nicely from the gory reality of meat production: the castration of male animals; slaughter of newborn calves born to milking cows; de-beaking of battery chickens, crammed into tiny cages; sows 'shackled' in farrowing crates; and the final bloody business of slaughter.
Full marks for giving Marcus the chop by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
The public have largely stopped buying battery chickens but continue to buy game under the misguided notion that it is "wild" or "natural".
End slaughter of our wildlife; YOUR SHOUT by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
The public have largely stopped buying battery chickens but continue to buy game under the misguided notion that it is 'wild' or 'natural'.
Inglorious Twelfth; yourLETTERS by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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