Factory Farms

The term was surely created to denigrate them, and well they should be. Super interesting article on Casaubon's Book about a NYT article about factory dairy farms, and how they can't deal with the waste from 4000 cows very well. The nugget from her wry commentary:

My town had twice as many dairies 10 years ago, and twice as many as that 20 years ago. It has been a long and painful process of agonizing attrition, farmers hanging on just one more year, trying to make it work as they are undercut by people with 4,000 cows and with an agricultural system that would rather invest money in research to make the poop less toxic than simply recognize that none of us are served by the consolidation of dairy farming.