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 Translations factory farming n → cría industrial factory farming n (Brit) → élevage industriel factory farming factory (Brit) n → industriell betriebene Viehzucht f factory farming n (BRIT) → allevamento su scala industriale |
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Peter Singer and Jim Mason disagree, and in The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter (Rodale Books, 2006) the co-authors focus on the ways industrial agriculture (and factory farms in particular) harm and abuse billions of animals each year. With the price tag for a digester in the $1 million range, Stubbings says Ontario simply does not have huge factory farms for a reasonable return on investment as well as the economies of scale to pursue that waste market. Meat production contributes to the burning of forests to make land for farm animals, factory farms and other carbon dioxide-producing industries. |
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