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.
Some slurry/waste pits are enormous especially in large feedlots.
All of this pollution enters the atmosphere and pollutes the water table which inevitably makes its way to the oceans.
Image by Mishka Henner
Tony Rejoy #EEA #SM #CU 🌳 #V@HillTopGina would I be right in thinking every little dot is a cow?
Yes sadly it is. I saw some of these huge images at an exhibition at the Turner Contemporary in Kent in 2018. I pointed out to a group of people that the dots were cows waiting to be killed and isn't it awful what we do to life and the environment, they sadly all turned on their heals and left. Hopefully they went away and thought more about things 🙏
@HillTopGina Wow, it's too horrible. I'm 99.99% vegan these days and yet my son has gone into Oxford today and with his freedom to do so despite what I say, will no doubt end up in McDonalds the very kind of large volume factories those cows are destined for. Horrible.
Maybe challenge him to watch Earthlings Tony. That turned my mum vegan aged 78. She is 83 now and all her arthritis has cleared up.
Earthlings Documentary
@HillTopGina OMG I wish you'd warned me. It's too much to witness. I forced myself to watch 35 minutes. How can humans be so utterly evil. My son is only 14 I can't expose him to that just yet. I might start him with 'Cow' on Amazon.
@rejoinEU I am so sorry Tony. It is very hard to watch but most who do never touch an animal product ever again 💚