How to Use factory farm in a Sentence

factory farm

noun

• Meanwhile, factory farms, which were newish in 1975, have swept the globe.
  — Elizabeth Barber, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2023
• This displaces the torture from the hunt to a factory farm visitors do not see.
  — Martha C. Nussbaum, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2022
• All the group needed was a factory farm to test the technology.
  — Wendee Nicole, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2014
• On factory farms, chickens are slaughtered at about 14 weeks of age.
  — Kyle Arnold, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 May 2018
• Why is your pet hamster thought of differently than a pig in the factory farm?
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2011
• The Crowd Cow website claims its steaks taste the way meat did before factory farms existed.
  — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 22 May 2018
• Haaland does not so much harvest goals as factory farm them.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• Our farm is surrounded by 11 swine factory farms in a three-mile radius.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 14 June 2019
• The factory farms used to raise animals for their fur are no different.
  — Laura Pitcher, Teen Vogue, 3 Dec. 2019
• The farm is always a family farm, never a factory farm (a satisfying thought to viewers on the right and the left).
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2020
• So why the nugget? The idealistic might point out that U.S. farmers raised more than 9 billion chickens a year, much of them in factory farms.
  — Jonathan Kauffman, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2019
• Shoppers generally don’t get to meet the homeless trucker that brought their food from the factory farm to the grocery warehouse, nor the shrimper who lost a limb to a net hauler.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 19 Oct. 2020
• Over the past 20 years, a growing body of research has linked proximity to factory farms to various health risks.
  — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2020
• More than 50 billion land animals suffered and died on factory farms this year.
  — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 24 Dec. 2018
• In the same survey, a whopping 74% of respondents support a ban on new factory farms, a significant jump from just two years ago.
  — Daisy Freund, Treehugger, 21 Apr. 2023
• The state Department of Agriculture would need the approval of two-thirds of the board to draft rules regarding siting and expanding factory farms.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2020
• Growing chicken meat in a lab uses far less resources than raising live chickens on a factory farm.
  — Sarah Garone, Health, 30 June 2023
• There have been plenty of books chronicling the damage caused by factory farms, but his book is about how to solve animal farming itself.
  — Angela Chen, The Verge, 9 Nov. 2018
• The somewhat-controversial new face of milking sits on a side road about a mile away, where a herd of dozens of cows are rotated through a factory farm and milked essentially around the clock.
  — Darrel Rowland, The Enquirer, 15 Sep. 2020
• Will some have misgivings about meat that’s made in a reactor, instead of in a factory farm, like nature intended?
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Dec. 2020
• Animals raised on factory farms generate about 1 million tons of manure a day, Baur says.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2019
• The group said the protesters on Thursday night were trying to highlight an upcoming Smithfield Foods factory farm trial.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2022
• Dead animals from area factory farms are left to rot in open composting sheds, rather than using a rendering service.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 14 June 2019
• Like the converted, who hope for others to feel God’s love, so too do vegans hope for others to know a world other than the one darkened by factory farms—a world less cruel, more merciful.
  — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
• While the public fight has focused on food stamps, these lobbyists have pushed for changes that provide even more benefits to factory farms and corporations.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 18 May 2018
• And yet, Americans will eat an estimated 46 million turkeys on Thanksgiving, with most of the birds having been raised in factory farms.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2019
• But even with the settlements, there has been contention over the high concentration of factory farms in Kewaunee, and the growing number of private wells impacted by nitrate.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2024
• The overwhelming majority of animals raised for food are still raised on factory farms, where 50 billion animals lived and died this year.
  — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 24 Dec. 2018
• Industrial factory farms are at the center of our corporate food system.
  — Wenonah Hauter, The Mercury News, 13 July 2024
• For decades, animal advocates have argued fiercely over the value of incremental reforms to the factory farm system like, say, banning the most extreme forms of cage confinement.
  — Jishnu Guha-Majumdar, Vox, 8 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024