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French term or phrase:atelier productiviste
English translation:intensive piggery
Entered by: pooja_chic
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10:27 Mar 17, 2011
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French to English translations [PRO]
Livestock / Animal Husbandry
French term or phrase: atelier productiviste
Oui, c’est évident, car l’atelier productiviste est maintenant est battu en brèche par le bien être de la truie.Maintenant on ne raisonne plus comme avant - on croyait que cela n’était pas important.
pooja_chic
Local time: 00:11


Summary of answers provided
4intensive pig unit
B D Finch
3productivist facility
Catharine Cellier-Smart


  

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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
intensive pig unit


Explanation:
That is what it sounds like to me.

"... a 650 sow intensive pig unit in Buckinghamshire, producing slaughter pigs for a national processing company. ..."
v2.mlc.org.uk/pigs/strategy/members.html/?i=&s..

"... not least because it was an intensive pig unit which had aroused intense criticism on both hygiene and welfare grounds (MAFF was eventually to bring a ..."
www.warmwell.com/huguesinizan.html -

"... Nocton was a potential animal welfare disaster and highlighted the ... planned 'mega' farm in Derbyshire – an intensive pig unit for 2500 ..."
www.meatinfo.co.uk/.../Soil_Association_hits_out_at__93mega... -

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Note added at 5 hrs (2011-03-17 15:56:30 GMT)
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"Pétition pour des recherches indépendantes sur l'élevage productiviste .... Rapports sur le lien entre la méga-porcherie mexicaine et la ..."
www.spiritsoleil.com/actualite/sante/grippe_H1N1_A.htm

Also see: http://www.les4verites.com/Agriculture-Retour-au-productivis...

B D Finch
France
Local time: 20:41
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Notes to answerer
Asker: I agree with her but little deviation in my answer


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Catharine Cellier-Smart: not convinced intensive is a synonym for productivist here
8 hrs
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
productivist facility


Explanation:
"Productivism is the belief that measurable economic productivity and growth is the purpose of human organization (e.g., work), and that "more production is necessarily good".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivism

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Note added at 13 hrs (2011-03-18 00:08:41 GMT)
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"The political economy of a productivist agriculture: New Zealand dairy discourses"
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V...

"This norm was associated with intensification, technical progress, specialisation, commercialisation, productivity and production growth; in short, it promoted a productivist style of farming."
http://www.kuleuven.be/icag/files/John_Martin_Ernst_Langthal...

"A Critique of Productivist Agriculture"
http://geography.uwo.ca/research/great_lakes_geographer/GLG_...

Catharine Cellier-Smart
Local time: 22:41
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  B D Finch: I don't see how this can be used here in relation to pig farming.// Yes, you are right that "productivist" is (sadly) used about farming, but I still don't see the combination "productivist facility" anywhere.
5 hrs
  -> "productivist farming" is a fairly widely used term
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Mar 20, 2011 - Changes made by pooja_chic:
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