Factory Farms in New York
Factory Farms in New York
Factory Farms in New York
O ver the last two decades, small- and medium-scale livestock farms have given
way to factory farms that confine thousands of cows, hogs and chickens in tightly
packed facilities. In New York, there were 59,000 hogs, 9,600 beef cattle, 213,000
dairy cows and 3.5 million chickens on the largest operations in 2007, according to
the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Census of Agriculture. New York is the sixth-
largest factory-farmed dairy producer in the country.
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leave communities with fewer independent family farms,