“Who is the biggest supporter of factory farming in the USA?”
The for-profit corporations making billions of dollars off it.
“Why would the beginnings of factory farming be in the Communist Manifesto, in black and white? It’s part of the record.”
It’s not. There is no mention of “factory farming” in the manifesto, or any description of a process similar to what we know as factory farming. Futhermore, the communists never made any attempt, that I am aware of, to implement anything similar to what we call “factory farming”. You are just confusing the reference to involving industry and farming with the modern concept that we have today. What the commies were proposing, and what they actually tried to implement, was an entirely different animal.
Contrary to factory farming, the commie experiment actually reduced efficiency, so it is quite a far cry from factory farming.
Both incorrect. If companies are being subsidized to do farming, how can they be making money from it? As high as $30 billion per year on average in direct agricultural subsidy, with three-quarters of it being received by large “agribusness” concerns?
Intensive animal farming is a recent phenomenon; it started around the 1960s. Coincidentally, the agricultural subsidies started increasing and the number of people on farms started decreasing. Capitalist? Think again. Claiming that “factory farming” is not mentioned in the Manifesto—when it clearly is (”combining agriculture with industrial production”)—is an attempt to push reality away. And yes, intensive farming does reduce quality.