Farming Failure?

UK Factory Farming Is Polluting Rivers and Harming Our Environment

Not only is this a barbaric and cruel way to farm, but with over 70% of the UK’s land dedicated to farming there are many negative impacts and reasons to stop the spread of intensive factory farms:

Over a billion animals are confined in factory farms every year – that’s 85% of all UK farmed animals.
Agriculture is the number one source of river pollution in the UK.
The equivalent of 35% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions come from producing and eating our food and drink.
Food production in the UK is threatening 40% of UK species already at risk of extinction.
For every 100 calories of edible crops fed to animals, just 17 - 30 calories enter the human food chain as meat and milk.
Intensive industrial livestock production entails crowded and stressful conditions which can lead to more harmful strains of disease emerging.

Why Is Factory Farming Spreading?

Permitting the expansion makes no sense, yet local authorities struggle to establish the basis to reject more farms of this type, since neither climate change nor animal welfare are clearly identified as legitimate planning considerations.

What can you do about it?

Join our END IT campaign to end factory farming, by writing to the Minister responsible for planning in your nation. Ask them to strengthen the law to ensure that where communities are overwhelmed by factory farms, local authorities can reject planning applications for even more.