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

    WSJ: An Economy Caught in a Web

  • 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.

    FORBES: Peak Oil and ERoEI: Still Nonsense

  • IR Factory-farm animals become food for humans, and animal testing helps develop new medicines.

    ECONOMIST: Hounded

  • Huge paintings and mosaics show their likeness from factory to farm.

    BBC: On holiday in North Korea

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

    FORBES: One ratio does not fit all

  • 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.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Tehran threat in the US' backyard

  • Do we try to turn the clock back and regain those farm and factory jobs, or do we educate and train ourselves for the new higher value-added jobs of the future.

    FORBES: Jobs and Public Policy

  • In the current issue of the McKinsey Quarterly, W. Brian Arthur, an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute, warns that technology is quickly taking over service jobs, following the waves of automation of farm and factory work.

    FORBES: Race Against the Machine

  • The brothers power their farm and cheese factory using an anaerobic digestion system, which turns organic waste into fuel, and cuts down on greenhouse gas emissions.

    WHITEHOUSE: Council on Environmental Quality Blog

  • 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.

    CNN: New FDA rules target foodborne illnesses

  • No, the point of mechanized farming is to replace 100 farm jobs with only 50 factory and dealership jobs, or maybe only 5.

    FORBES: Dumb Idea: Investment Creates Jobs

  • During China's 30 years of economic growth, hundreds of millions of factory and urban jobs soaked up surplus rural farm labor.

    WSJ: China's Rising Wages Propel Prices

  • Think of all the farm jobs lost to tractors and other farm equipment, and all the factory jobs lost to labor-saving technology, equipment, and computers.

    FORBES: Jobs and Public Policy

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

    WHITEHOUSE: Celebrating Citizenship Day by Welcoming New Americans

  • The Moorestown factory was built in 1953 on what had been an asparagus farm by the old Radio Corporation of America (RCA).

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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.

    ECONOMIST: Letters

  • 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

  • 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'

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