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Factory Farm

By: Jennifer Ellen Coffman
In: Green Food: An A-to-Z Guide
Edited by: Dustin Mulvaney & Paul Robbins
Subject:Environmental Technology, Policy & Management, Environmental Policy
Keywords:agribusiness; factories; factory farming; farming; livestock; slaughtering; Turkey

Depending on the economies of scale, the term factory farm refers to industrialized livestock rearing in which animals are confined at high densities and brought to production or slaughter as rapidly as possible. Also called intensive, industrialized, ...

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  Coffman, J. (2011). Factory farm. In D. Mulvaney, & P. Robbins (Eds.), Green food: An A-to-Z guide (pp. 145-148). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412971874.n51
  
  Coffman, Jennifer Ellen. "Factory Farm." In Green Food: An A-to-Z Guide, edited by Mulvaney, Dustin, and Paul Robbins, 145-48. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412971874.n51.
  
  Coffman, J. 2011. Factory Farm. In: Dustin Mulvaney and Paul Robbins Editors, 2011. Green Food: An A-to-Z Guide, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 145-148 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412971874.n51> [Accessed 23 Jun 2021].
  
  Coffman, Jennifer Ellen. "Factory Farm." Green Food: An A-to-Z Guide. Edited by Dustin Mulvaney and Paul Robbins. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2011, pp. 145-48. SAGE Knowledge. 23 Jun 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412971874.n51.
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