Industrial-scale units house thousands of animals, cutting the cost of production through economies of scale.
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Now, industrial-scale pig warehouses are appearing, with 16, 000 sows raising 320, 000 piglets a year.
And Ma-Ma's product comes out of a shop that looks a lot like an industrial-scale meth lab.
Nor has it escaped the notice of industrial-scale wineries that Grenache vines can sprout massive crops of grapes.
Their hope was to make more capital from the land by running shooting estates, or starting industrial-scale livestock farming.
Pyrolising stoves are easy to construct and available models range from the portable to industrial-scale machines costing tens of thousands of dollars.
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For the foreseeable future, we will all continue to hate the industrial-scale dreck that dominates our diets, but will continue to eat it nevertheless.
But the sequencing of the human genome, an example of the power of industrial-scale science, inspired him, and he wanted to fund something similar.
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He proposes the industrial-scale culturing (biomanufacturing, as he describes it, rather than farming) of single-celled algae that have been genetically engineered to turn out fuel-ready hydrocarbons.
Or rather, after an aberrant half century of industrial-scale McDonaldization of the global economy, the local food industry is actually reclaiming the bellwether status it has always had in history.
It's also easy to overlook the damage inflicted on local ecosystems and economies -- a large portion of which are in the developing world -- as a consequence of current industrial-scale agriculture practices.
And despite having indisputably broken the law, the process Sky News seems to have undergone to break this story is a far cry from the industrial-scale criminality carried out and admitted to by News International.
"We are planning to build a permanent base on the moon by 2015 and by 2020 we can begin the industrial-scale delivery... of the rare isotope helium-3, " said Nikolai Sevastianov, head of Russian space vehicle manufacturer Energia, at a seminar in Moscow in January.
However graphene production - still not achieved on an affordable and industrial scale - is in the project's sights.
As with much of farming and food production, it is the large-scale industrial-commercial enterprises that draw more criticism than small family-run farms.
Expanding industrial development and large-scale shipping are also generating new risks.
Last month, the U.S. counterintelligence chief issued a blunt critique of China's theft of American corporate intellectual property and economic data, calling China "the world's most active and persistent perpetrators of economic espionage" and warning that large-scale industrial espionage threatens U.S. competitiveness and national security.
He says this will create regional jobs, increase resource security, reduce consumption of non-renewable resources, increase material efficiency and prevent carbon emissions and industrial waste - all on a big scale.
While asset sales in the company's industrial unit are possible, Parent said large-scale divestitures are not likely.
If the process can be repeated on an industrial scale, it could provide a clean-burning liquid alternative for millions of motorists.
Barring forcible intervention of some kind, it's highly likely Iran will fire up this reactor in earnest later this year--and start cranking out, on an industrial scale, spent fuel that can be processed into plutonium for nuclear bombs.
De Beers is active in every category of industrial diamond mining: open-pit, underground, large-scale alluvial, coastal and deep sea.
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Second is a vendor neutrality that can deftly neutralize any reluctant (or recalcitrant) healthcare IT vendor, and third is a rich history of domain expertise specifically around industrial-strength network security, identity management and authentication (at scale).
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Even within the Great Lakes region, Wisconsin, which ranks second in per capita employment in manufacturing, has held onto most of its industrial employment due to its large, highly diversified base of smaller-scale specialized manufacturers.
They raided the cookie jar on an industrial scale, till they were morbidly obese, but their parents - the regulators - saw them as the picture of health.
Franklin Roosevelt, who presided over a country with a third-rate army, ordered an industrial transformation of the American economy on a scale that seemed simply out of reach, with the focused, urgent aim of defeating the Nazis.
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People steal from the cheap-food shops of the Public Distribution System (PDS) on an industrial scale.
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The defense acquisition system thus diminishes economies of scale and isolates military products from the mainstream of industrial innovation, largely precluding cross-fertilization between the defense and commercial sectors.
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