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Consumers are sold the idea that animals on UK farms have good lives, and yet most live inside factory farms where their natural behaviours are thwarted, and they suffer, and many die unseen.
New drone footage shows just some of these factory mega farms.
New drone footage shows just some of these factory mega farms.
Nearly every county in England has at least one industrial-scale livestock farm, w/close to 800 US-style mega farms operating across the UK, new research reveals.
“Last year, we grew almost a billion birds, 95% indoors and 3.4% free range and 1% organic." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/17/uk-has-nearly-800-livestock-mega-farms-investigation-reveals
“Last year, we grew almost a billion birds, 95% indoors and 3.4% free range and 1% organic." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/17/uk-has-nearly-800-livestock-mega-farms-investigation-reveals
What led the UK to having such a high saturation of factory farms that smaller farming operations were steamrolled out of existence was the demand for animal products.
Yet factory farms are also breeding grounds for future pandemics. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/20/factory-farms-pandemic-risk-covid-animal-human-health
Yet factory farms are also breeding grounds for future pandemics. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/20/factory-farms-pandemic-risk-covid-animal-human-health
More than 1 in 7 UK native species face extinction and 56% are in decline, and factory farming plays a role. Barn owls, hedgehogs bees, frogs and water voles are also seriously struggling against climate change, factory farms, habitat loss, and pollution. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2019/jan/31/the-uks-nature-in-crisis-in-pictures
We must end factory farming before it ends us.
Going vegan is the best way to do that.
There is no way for small family farms to feed us all, that's why factory farms started to exist in the first place: demand by consumers. https://viva.org.uk/animals/campaigns/end-factory-farming-before-it-ends-us/end-factory-farming-go-vegan-now/
Going vegan is the best way to do that.
There is no way for small family farms to feed us all, that's why factory farms started to exist in the first place: demand by consumers. https://viva.org.uk/animals/campaigns/end-factory-farming-before-it-ends-us/end-factory-farming-go-vegan-now/
