Factory farming is passing far bigger costs and risks on to all of us. In economic terms, these costs should be internalized by the factory farmers rather than being shifted onto the rest of us.

Those who know little about modern factory farming may wonder why such legislation would be necessary. Under farming methods that were universal 50 years ago, and that are still common in some countries today, all animals have the space to turn around and stretch their limbs.

Factory farming spread because it seemed to be cheaper than more traditional methods. In fact, it was cheaper only because it passed some of its costs on to others for example, to people who lived downstream or downwind from the factory farms, and could no longer enjoy clean water and air.

It isn t called factory farming merely because those sheds look like factories. Everything about the production method is geared towards turning live animals into machines for converting grain into meat or eggs at the lowest possible cost.

So this is a pink uniform at this factory. It's a shoe factory.

That factory makes toys.

This is a textile where they're doing shirts Youngor, the biggest shirt factory and clothing factory in China.

This factory manufactures automobile parts.

He works in a factory.

This factory manufactures CD players.

This factory manufactures electric stoves.

I work in a factory.

We work in a factory.

However, after a while there was a new factory being built in Budapest, a pottery factory, a large one.

Farming was an energy bonanza.

Intensive farming is depleting soils.

They are farmers and factory workers.

Nashi are tinned in this factory.

My father works at a factory.

My father works at the factory.

Let's go back to traditional farming.

Our farming has done the opposite.

Subsistence farming is drying up basically.

Because he's got an efficient enough factory.

He ran and worked in a factory.

There is no factory in this village.

The enemy dropped bombs on the factory.

But it's much faster than conventional farming.

That means, you know, net fertility farming.

People here survive mainly on subsistence farming.

The main occupation here is subsistence farming.

We started with the factory idea that you could change the whole world if you had an efficient factory that could churn out change.

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How long should I stay in this factory?

There was basically a factory of industrial machines.

Here are just some pictures of the factory.

And it's just a complex of factory buildings.

The enemy dropped many bombs on the factory.

Yesterday, an explosion occurred at the fireworks factory.

She wanted to keep farming until she dies.

Trade is 10 times as old as farming.

Subsistence farming was the only source of livelihood.

The General Union of Farming Cooperatives (UGC), created in Maputo and with 10,000 members being 90 women, acts particularly in the green zones of Maputo and works with productive farming cooperatives in an effort to maximize economic activities in farming and livestock production.

I grew up in a tofu factory in Seattle.

Now, cigarettes out the factory gate are very cheap.