• HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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    There are more than 15,000 cattle and hog feeding operations in the United States. These operations rear 70% of the country’s cattle and 98% of its hogs.

    Is this the new sanitized corporate term for factory farm? I doubt they’re just feeding the animals and letting them go afterward.

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      Animal feeding operation (AFO) includes more than just factory farms, but most animal agriculture happens in factory farms in both the US and globally. At least in terms of number of farm animals

      Concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) is usually the sanitized term for factory farm though it may exclude some places you’d might call factory farms because it’s a term primarily based around the number of farm animals per location