About half of the world's meat comes from livestock grazing on grass in unfenced rangelands and enclosed pastures. Where is the other half of the world's meat produced and what does this involve?

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The other half is produced through an industrialized factory farm system. This involves raising large numbers of animals bred to gain weight quickly, mostly in crowded feedlots or in very crowded pens and cages in huge buildings called concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs).

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