be slaughtered and processed locally.

Small farmers are often absorbed into factory farm operations, acting as contract growers for the industrial facilities. In the case of poultry contract growers, farmers are required to make costly investments in construction of sheds to house the birds, buy required feed and drugs - often settling for slim profit margins, or even losses.

In the United States, one of the principal kinds of facilities for dense animal agriculture is the concentrated animal feeding operation

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