| LC control no. | sh 85077810 |
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| Topical heading | Factory farms |
| Variant(s) | Animal factories CAFOs (Farms) Concentrated animal feeding operations Confined animal feeding operations Factory farming Factory-sized livestock farms Farm factories Industrial livestock farms Livestock factories Mega-livestock farms |
| See also | Animal industry Livestock farms Meat industry and trade |
| Found in | Taylor, A.M. Magpies, monkeys and morals, 1999: CIP data ("since the 1950s the scale and the efficiency of factory-farming in the Western world has increased enormously") Web. 3 (factory farm: a farm managed and operated like a factory) LC database, May 17, 1999 (livestock factories; factory farming; animal factories; factory farms. Heading Livestock factories assigned to these titles) Factory farming WWW site, May 17, 1999 (factory farming) F.A.R.M. Bibliography about Livestock Factories (Illinois) WWW site, May 17, 1999 (livestock factories; factory farming; mega-livestock farms; factory-sized livestock farms) America's Animal Factories ... Introduction and Executive Summary WWW site, May 17, 1999 (animal factories; industrial livestock farms; factory farms) Large-scale livestock and poultry animal confinement facilities WWW site, May 17, 1999 (farm factories; animal factories) National Trust for Historic Preservation website, Sept. 12, 2007 (article: Factory farms and America's rural heritage: factory farms, also known as concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs); factory farms use industrial production techniques to raise thousands of animals in one location; typical factory farm consists of several large metal buildings and adjacent sewage lagoons) National Resources Defense Council website, Sept. 12, 2007 (article: America's animal factories: in the past twenty years, industrial livestock farms have been replacing traditional family-sized farms that once raised most U.S. poultry, swine and cattle; typical hog factory farm has several metal barns, each containing several hundred to several thousand animals tightly confined cheek by jowl) Wikipedia, Jan. 22, 2008 (Feedlot: a feedlot or feedyard is a type of Confined Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) (also known as "factory farming") which is used for finishing livestock, notably beef cattle, prior to slaughter) |
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