Gina BatesSLURRY PITS: A 🧵
A slurry pit is a lagoon or concrete structure where animal waste is collected with other unusable organic matter, such as water run-off from washing down dairies and factory farms.
It's hard not to just focus on the poor cows in this picture.
Look at this dead landscape
How many species thrive here?
Not even soil life can survive
This slurry slop then runs off into rivers causing aquatic life to suffocate.
500 marine locations are now recorded as dead zones globally, currently the size of the United Kingdom’s surface. These dead zones are a toxic cocktail of agriculture runoff from slurry, pesticides, fertilizers, plastic and rotting marine life.
Animals also fall into slurry pits and there is no escape.
Countless wild animals fall in and disappear unnoticed.
Slurry gases includes methane, carbon monoxide, ammonia and hydrogen sulphide, all of which can create a risk to human and animal health. Some gases are flammable, others are toxic and some will displace oxygen from the air, causing a risk of asphyxiation.
Run off from farms is killing aquatic life and rendering waterways dead
Farm slurry is deadly.