ABSTRACT
Industrialized agriculture can be de”ned as applying the values of simpli”cation, specialization, and concentration to a manufacturing operation, including food production and farm animal production (Taylor, 1911; see also Kanagil, 1997). The methods of automobile production and food processing have been applied to livestock production beginning with poultry and moving to pigs, cattle, and dairy cows (Heinrichs and Welsh, 2003). These industrial farm animal production methods have had signi”cant impacts on rural communities. The history of such impacts has been reviewed in much of academic literature in the ”elds of sociology, economics, and public health.
