0 a system of farming in which a lot of animals are kept in a small closed area, in order to produce a large amount of meat, eggs, or milk as cheaply as possible:
1 a way of producing meat and other animal products quickly and cheaply by keeping animals in small spaces in buildings and feeding them special types of food:
The overwhelming majority of people condemn factory farming and the battery system.
With modern factory farming methods, however, the conditions of growth for animals are difficult.
Its purpose is to indicate as far as possible where meat has been produced by factory farming methods.
This then brings us directly to the question of factory farming.
There are many cases in factory farming where animals simply cannot turn around.
It is done all over the world, but just because it is classified in this country as factory farming, people are against it.
That is good, because if factory farming was to be tackled it should have been tackled 20 years ago.
We are discussing the morality of factory farming.
