Industrial food

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Industrial food can refer to:

  • Convenience food, also known as (tertiary) processed food — food that is commercially prepared (often through processing) to optimise ease of consumption
  • Food industry, a diverse collection of businesses that supply most of the food consumed by the world's population
  • Intensive farming or industrial agriculture, various types of, often highly mechanised, agriculture with higher levels of input and output than traditional methods
    • Factory farming, also known as intensive animal farming and industrial livestock production - a production approach towards farm animals in order to maximize production output, while minimizing production costs
    • Intensive crop farming, the industrialized production of crops

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