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What makes ranching/farming industrial?


Ownership, size, practices. For farming, the growing of monoculture crops with heavy use of fertilizers and pesticides. For ranching, over populated constrained pens depending hormones and antibiotics to keep the animals “healthy” long enough to get to desired size before slaughter.




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