CAFO
CAFO or Confined Animal Feeding Operation (aka Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation), is, according to Sustainable Table, “an agricultural business where animals are raised in confined situations and fed an unnatural diet, instead of allowing them to roam and graze.”
These can be huge, containing thousands of chickens, cattle, or pigs.
You may very well hear CAFO as an adjective: “Oh, ick! A menu full of CAFO meat. I’ll be having the veggieburger!”
From "Eat Where You Live", Copyright © 2008 by Lou Bendrick.
Photo: law_keven/Flickr
Articles about CAFO
Thu, Apr 26 2012 at 1:25 PM EST
Pink slime is said to recover 10 to 12 pounds of edible lean beef from every animal and save another 1.5 million animals from slaughter, but does that diminish the total gross-out factor?Thu, Sep 09 2010 at 3:39 PM EST
Climate change journalist George Monbiot says he was wrong when he claimed 'the only ethical response is to stop eating meat.'Mon, Apr 26 2010 at 2:52 AM EST
Lynn Henning, a country farmer, wins the Goldman Prize for battling a massive factory cattle operation that was polluting once fertile farms in Michigan. Sat, Apr 25 2009 at 2:38 AM EST
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