How to Use factory farm in a Sentence

factory farm

noun
  • In principle, there’s a lot of sense in capping the size of factory farms.
    — Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 10 Oct. 2024
  • On factory farms, chickens are slaughtered at about 14 weeks of age.
    — Kyle Arnold, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 May 2018
  • Why is your pet hamster thought of differently than a pig in the factory farm?
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2011
  • This displaces the torture from the hunt to a factory farm visitors do not see.
    — Martha C. Nussbaum, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The factory farms used to raise animals for their fur are no different.
    — Laura Pitcher, Teen Vogue, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Meanwhile, factory farms, which were newish in 1975, have swept the globe.
    — Elizabeth Barber, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2023
  • All the group needed was a factory farm to test the technology.
    — Wendee Nicole, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2014
  • Our farm is surrounded by 11 swine factory farms in a three-mile radius.
    — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 14 June 2019
  • The state's factory farms have seen a 78% increase in waste production over the past two decades.
    — Monica Sanders, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • Growing chicken meat in a lab uses far less resources than raising live chickens on a factory farm.
    — Sarah Garone, Health, 30 June 2023
  • More than 50 billion land animals suffered and died on factory farms this year.
    — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 24 Dec. 2018
  • Cage free means that the hens that laid the eggs were not confined to battery cages, a wire cage used to house hens and other animals in factory farms.
    — Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The Crowd Cow website claims its steaks taste the way meat did before factory farms existed.
    — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 22 May 2018
  • Vote yes on Measure DD to keep factory farms out of Berkeley.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Millions of birds have to be euthanized every time avian flu is discovered at a factory farm.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Utah seeks to block animal rights activists from justifying factory farm break-in.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 June 2021
  • The farm is always a family farm, never a factory farm (a satisfying thought to viewers on the right and the left).
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Bird flu remains a major threat that will strike again—as long as factory farms continue to dominate our poultry market.
    — Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 May 2025
  • Dead animals from area factory farms are left to rot in open composting sheds, rather than using a rendering service.
    — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 14 June 2019
  • There have been plenty of books chronicling the damage caused by factory farms, but his book is about how to solve animal farming itself.
    — Angela Chen, The Verge, 9 Nov. 2018
  • People who live within miles of factory farms report terrible stenches that keep them indoors and force them to have their windows closed.
    — Sam Delgado, Vox, 17 Mar. 2025
  • As her relatives started to fall ill, this encirclement of factory farms didn’t go unchallenged.
    — Christine Ro, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Will some have misgivings about meat that’s made in a reactor, instead of in a factory farm, like nature intended?
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Dec. 2020
  • There are now 12 hog factory farms within three miles of the Trom family property.
    — Kenny Torrella, Vox, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Animals raised on factory farms generate about 1 million tons of manure a day, Baur says.
    — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Pepper points out that pigs on factory farms commit acts of violence that would otherwise be rare in their communities.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Over the past 20 years, a growing body of research has linked proximity to factory farms to various health risks.
    — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Shoppers generally don’t get to meet the homeless trucker that brought their food from the factory farm to the grocery warehouse, nor the shrimper who lost a limb to a net hauler.
    — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 19 Oct. 2020
  • In the same survey, a whopping 74% of respondents support a ban on new factory farms, a significant jump from just two years ago.
    — Daisy Freund, Treehugger, 21 Apr. 2023
  • While the public fight has focused on food stamps, these lobbyists have pushed for changes that provide even more benefits to factory farms and corporations.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 18 May 2018

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'factory farm.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: