What does the term "factory farm" refer to?!

Its funny, I have traveled this country extensively and have still not seen a factory farm. I have seen big farms, little farms, pig farms, cattle farms, grain farms, chicken farms, dairy farms, goat farms, fish farms, but never a factory farm. The term (factory farm) was coined by animal rights extremists to try and give farms a bad name.

Maybe we should make up a name for huge produce company farms that destroy habitat, kill animals with pesticides, and kill animals in the process of planting, harvesting, and shipping. Lets see,.... what should we call them???? Hmm....

I told you in your last queshtion what a factory farm was and I did reccomend you watch earthlings and food.Inc. Theese are non PETA doccumentarys with fottage of factory farms. Do you really think they would get actors to throw a live pig down or stun a cow? The only reason you wouldn't watch theese is because your afraid of being proven wrong. If an omnivore reccomends me a pro meat video I just watch it to see what they're talking about. Don't tell me you don't have time because if you have the time to rant on yahoo answers you can watch 10 minutes of a doccumentary or atleast a 2 minute trailer. The reason theese are called factory farms is because they are run like factorys. With moving conveyor belts slitting the animals necks rather than an actual person and the machinery used to grind the meat theese are factorys. When you stop denying facts and try to educate your self maybe you'll know what we're talking about but for now your just a nother pathetic ignorant person.
Just so you know not many veg*ns like PETA. If you were to ask that you'd find that most of the answers will say so.

"Factory Farms" are farms like a massive conveyor belt that spits out meat 24/7 not giving the animals time to have a life. Free range farms on the other hand let the animal be an animal and have a life before they reach the age where they are killed for meat. So you can see why Vegans and Vegetarians and even some meat eaters are a bit against "Factory Farms". It's not right, they don't care about animal rights.

Omnivore

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_far…

its not a "very stupid term made up by animal right activist such as PETA people." its a real term.

An example of a factory farm is a chicken farm where the chickens are kept in small cages for their entire life. The acreage doesn't have anything to do with it.

It is a term created by vegans to make themselves feel better.

Probably farms that raise animals for slaughter at meat plants.

I think it just means a CAFO- Confined/Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
Basic definition is that animals confined inside, and no vegetataion or other crops are grown on the operation.
Technically, there could be a simply lovely CAFO, with fake grass and delicious feed and pigs oinking and rolling around and a great glass roof for the sun to shine through (the pigs I know love to sunbathe), with no crowding... you get the lovely idealistic picture.
TECHNICALLY. (Obviously, the term 'factory farm' would not be used for a place like that.)

I think there are two reasons why animal welfare/rights activists use factory farm: it produces a more shocking image, which is therefore more effective, and the 'technically' point- an omnivore could be all 'well, CAFO doesn't sound that bad, they're just inside, on concrete, right?'

Term 'factory farm' implies mistreatment of animals- treating animals like factories, solely for the purpose of making meat/dairy/eggs, and treating them as factories, not beings, by using things such as sow crates, battery cages, etc.

As used in TIME August 2008 “In the U.S., food animals are overwhelmingly raised on factory farms, where cattle and pigs are crammed together by the thousands and chickens are confined in cages that barely allow them to stand.”
That usage also seems to imply that the term 'factory farm' implicitly involves animal crowding, less-than-desirable conditions, etc.
Whereas CAFO can technically be taken to mean 'inside place without vegetation wher eyou keep animals'.

I sorta wrote this all over the place, so I hope it's organized enough. Anyways, that's just the way I look at it.

You look like a *******. If you don't understand or comprehend a basic term like ''factory farming'' and why there are criticism of it, you can use Google Search instead of using yahoo answers.
There are many key issues arguing against it from its impacts on the health of the factory workers, the consumer and the livestock to its impact on the environment.

This is what came up when I simply typed in the ''factory farming'' on google search:

A majority of the animals that are raised for food live miserable lives in intensive confinement in dark, overcrowded facilities, commonly called "factory farms."

http://www.idausa.org/facts/factoryfarmf…

Workers may develop acute and chronic lung disease, musculoskeletal injuries, and may catch infections that transmit from animals to human beings (such as tuberculosis).

Pesticides are used to control organisms but are considered harmful.
The use of antibiotics may create antibiotic-resistant pathogens; parasites, bacteria, and viruses may be spread; ammonia, nitrogen, and phosphorus can reduce oxygen in surface waters and contaminate drinking water; pesticides and hormones may cause hormone-related changes in fish; animal feed and feathers may stunt the growth of desirable plants in surface waters and provide nutrients to disease-causing micro-organisms; trace elements such as arsenic and copper, which are harmful to human health, may contaminate surface waters