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United Kingdom: Who needs mega-farms?

2013-05-12 02:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Independent: The plan for a "mega-farm" of 25,000 pigs in Derbyshire should make us uneasy. As should the proposals for a 1,000-cow dairy factory in Wales and for a 15,000-ton-a-year salmon farm in Galway Bay off Ireland, on which we also report today. The Independent on Sunday opposes these steps towards the further intensification of farming, but we should be clear why. The standards of animal welfare in these huge farms would probably be no worse than those in British agriculture generally; in some respects,...

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