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
See also Agribusiness Mechanised agriculture Food processing Industrial Revolution