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    More than 200 factory farms set up in UK in five years ‘creating living hell for animals’
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    More than 200 factory farms set up in UK in five years ‘creating living hell for animals’

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    1. deprevino on

      The best way you can help is to stop buying meat, a lot of it is too expensive nowadays anyway. These factories are set up to meet demand, so lower demand.

    2. DirtyBackRoader on

      People *want* another pandemic. They’re asking for it.

      To see their kids, loved ones and community dropping like flies means nothing to them, not compared to being denied bacon.

      Otherwise they wouldn’t buy it and cheap meat in general. But they do. And ignorance is no excuse because everybody knows. Yet they still do it.

    3. stack-o-logz on

      If people stopped buying cheap food, this practice would likely reduce.

      But always searching for the cheapest possible price, the message consumers give to suppliers is that they don’t care they just want it cheap.

      I eat less meat but make sure it’s free range/organic and I almost never eat meat in restaurants/cafes.

    4. TheFinalPieceOfPie on

      This is a larger problem with a government that has grown complacent, not enforcing actual animal welfare standards and further pushing farmers into situations where they need to adopt crueller practices. It is easy to blame a “meat-eating population” for this issue but it is the responsibility of the government to enforce standards, not the public. The public should be pushing our government to enforce animal welfare standards that we as a country criticise other countries for not having and we should ensure our farmers do not cave to financial pressure to ensure that they do not lower their standards to a less than third-world level. 

      People who engage in this sort of farming are either a corporation that needs to be fined heavily and banned from any form of animal handling outright or are very very very desperate farmers who’ve been forced to engage in said practices because, in the last 14 years, we’ve had a government that has done everything within their ability to crush all forms of British industry, in this case these farmers need to be guided and helped back to the proper way of farming rather than outright punished, though I do believe they are still partially responsible. 

    5. Reach_Reclaimer on

      Factory farming should be banned in the UK

      Yes it will make meat more expensive but it will lower meat consumption (leading to less health issues in the population), force at least slightly more ethical meat, and probably make people eat veggies more

    6. BritishEcon on

      The left: people can’t afford to eat

      Also the left: cheap food production is cruel

    7. Euclid_Interloper on

      If you want to eat meat, the best thing to do is buy directly from farms with good standards. There’s lots of organic farms practicing regenerative agriculture that you can get deliveries from online. It’s more expensive, but I think the principle of ‘eat less, but eat higher quality’ is a good principle in general to follow.

    9. sPlippp on

      Watch the latest series of Clarkson farm before commenting please.

      He killed nearly half the piglets first time round and 14% the second time – by being crushed by their mothers
      They spent the winter living in absolute filth, where one sow very likely caught ill and had to be put down.
      Sows like to bite, can be aggressive and can be dangerous. His rare breeds were tiny compared to typical breeds used today.

      Birthing crates will always be a part of commercial pork production as they are compromising 6 weeks of the mothers welfare for the lives of the piglets and safety of the farmers.

    10. Jaxxlack on

      Wtf! Can we get a list of this factory farms!!! Utterly disgusting and a stain on the agricultural industry

    11. eugene20 on

      I’m sure I was told something like ‘we don’t need EU regulations the Conservatives have lead the way on such progressive matters as animal rights’.
      Just wait and see what will happen to human rights too if they win more years in power, as they keep trying to pull out of the ECHR.