Drugs, hormones and excrement: the polluting pig mega-farms supplying pork to the world
#fleischindustrie #megafarms #México
More cattle kept in UK ‘megafarms’, BBC finds
More cows could be kept indoors for the whole of their productive lives, #AnimalWelfare campaigners have warned, after the BBC found a rise in “megafarms”.
Freedom of Information (FOI) requests by the BBC show the number of larger-scale #beef and #dairy #cattle #farms in Britain has increased from 756 to 802 in five years, now holding more than 915,000 #cows.
Campaign group Compassion in World Farming (CiWF) said the rise in large-scale #CattleFarming was “deeply concerning” as many would be intensive #megafarms housing #cattle all year round.
Pandemics and intensive poultry farms
"The bird flu is killing species from the high Arctic to mainland Antarctica.This is how a newly discovered virus in Chinese poultry came to threaten so much of the world’s biodiversity."
"How can we stem this tsunami of H5N1 and other avian influenzas? Completely overhaul poultry production on a global scale. Make farms self-sufficient in rearing eggs and chicks instead of exporting them internationally. The trend towards megafarms containing over a million birds must be stopped in its tracks."
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https://theconversation.com/the-next-pandemic-its-already-here-for-earths-wildlife-222306
#AvianInfluenza #H5N1 #birds #poultry #MegaFarms #meat #biodiversity #pandemics #biodiversity
#Brexit likely to create a rise in #UK #megafarms | #Environment | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/28/brexit-likely-to-create-a-rise-in-uk-megafarms
Joseph Simons 🍁 🌱
Glyn Moody
Schauinsland
Richard Ashwell
NSW.Biodiversity
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