I believe many of those factory farms *are* family-owned. Given increasing automation and given what little care and attention the animals receive, one family plus some hired help might indeed output e.g. hundreds of thousands of chickens per year. "Family-owned" doesn't mean, anymore, what it connotes in the mind of the typical consumer, and the industry knows this of course.
May I make a suggestion/request? If you're gonna use a picture in the article thumbnail, reproduce it in the article itself. Otherwise it's kind of frustrating because people click hoping to see the picture more zoomed in and then they can't cuz it's not there.
I believe many of those factory farms *are* family-owned. Given increasing automation and given what little care and attention the animals receive, one family plus some hired help might indeed output e.g. hundreds of thousands of chickens per year. "Family-owned" doesn't mean, anymore, what it connotes in the mind of the typical consumer, and the industry knows this of course.
May I make a suggestion/request? If you're gonna use a picture in the article thumbnail, reproduce it in the article itself. Otherwise it's kind of frustrating because people click hoping to see the picture more zoomed in and then they can't cuz it's not there.