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factory farming (sh)




System of modern animal farming designed to yield the most meat, milk, and eggs in the least amount of time and space possible.

The term, descriptive of standard farming practice in the U.S., is frequently used by animal-rights activists, who maintain that animal-protection measures routinely ignore farm animals. Animals are often fed growth hormones, sprayed with pesticides, and fed antibiotics to mitigate the problems of infestation and disease that are exacerbated by crowded living conditions. Chickens spend their lives crowded into small cages, often so tightly that they cannot turn around; the cages are stacked in high batteries, and the length of "day" and "night" are artificially controlled to maximize egg laying. Veal calves are virtually immobilized in narrow stalls for their entire lives. These and numerous Other practices have long been decried by critics.


Aryan (medicine)


aryan


1. One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and Other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic.

2. The language of the original Aryans.

Alternative forms: Arian.

Origin: Skr. Arya excellent, honorable; akin to the name of the country Iran, and perh. To Erin, Ireland, and the early name of this people, at least in Asia.

Source: Websters Dictionary