Drone footage shows spread and size of Britain’s mega-farms that ‘speed up climate change’
Matthew Glover, head of Million Dollar Vegan, which shot the footage, said: If we want to get to grips with the environmental crisis and end cruel factory farming, there must be an immediate end to mega-farms.
JANE DALTON: ‘New drone footage has revealed the spread of US-style mega-farms in Britain and worldwide – after MEPs voted to slash funding for them. The aerial film was taken to show the scale of industrial sheds that mostly house farm animals permanently indoors. Intensive farming is blamed for helping to accelerate climate change, driving species loss, emitting damaging slurry and nitrates, putting smaller farmers out of business and causing large-scale animal suffering by cramming creatures into windowless buildings with no outdoors access… Matthew Glover, head of Million Dollar Vegan, which shot the footage, said: “If we want to get to grips with the environmental crisis and end cruel factory farming, there must be an immediate end to planning permission for mega-farms…
The UK has an estimated 800 mega-farms, after an increase of at least 26 per cent since 2011. The biggest mega-farms house more than a million chickens, 20,000 pigs or 2,000 cattle… A recent Greenpeace study revealed that more than 71 per cent of EU farmland is used to feed livestock. The research said up to €32bn (£27.5bn) in agricultural subsidy payments were encouraging industrialised farming. According to Eurostat, nearly three-quarters of European meat and dairy products come from the largest farms… In 2016 a report by World Animal Protection detailed the introduction “by stealth” of industrial-scale dairy farms, saying shoppers were not told whether the milk they buy came from mega-dairies’. SOURCE…
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