He'd be squeezed against scores of other swine, hoofing a steel grate floor, while growing fatter and fatter on a factory farm.

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The programme of events includes a trip to a local blackcurrant farm and a jam factory.

BBC: Blackcurrants

"This is a really important step toward food safety standards that would prevent contamination whether it is produced in a food factory or being produced on a farm, " said Chris Waldrop, director of the Food Policy Institute at the Consumer Federation of America.

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But managing money is more like running a factory or even a farm.

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In return for Nicaraguan agricultural goods, Iran is to help fund a farm equipment factory, 4, 000 tractors, five milk-processing plants, a health clinic, 10, 000 houses and a deep-water port.

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If it's cheaper to control methane by fixing a pig farm than by squeezing the last gram of pollution out of a German chemical factory, let the factory pay the pig farmer to control methane.

FORBES: When Pigs Fly

If the mega-sized farms of the current modern factory farm system were suddenly beset by a shortage of modern petro-based pesticides and herbicides, those farms would all suffer massive crop failures, and food would become scarce all around the world in less than two years.

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Twenty jobs have also been cut at a drug factory in Ceredigion, and in north Wales 20 jobs will go in Llangefni and Denbigh at a farm machinery firm.

BBC: Bosch jobs threat 'devastating'

He worked as a farm worker, a railroad worker and a factory worker to give his family opportunities he never had.

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Manufacturing output has been falling since November, manufacturing investment is down 13.5% over the year, farm incomes are declining and there is a loss of factory employment of nearly 250, 000 since early 1998.

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