Pedestriansfirst“UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying.” Labour government chickens {joke} out to business lobbying again! #Labour #Environment #Pollution #AnimalWelfare
Epistatacadam@pedestrians1st the effluent concentrations factory farms represent are the main reason our rivers are in such poor condition. Factory farms provide bad food, bad water and are a haven for disease, unless flooded by antibiotics. But plenty of profit for the mega companies that own them. Why doesn't the NFU come out against them, or if it is make more noise about it.
UkeleleEric@epistatacadam @pedestrians1st because the NFU are not a farmer's organisation, but a political interest body funded mainly by a few very wealthy organisations and individuals. Hence the hooha they raised about the slight change to their massive privileges under inheritance tax law.
Juggling With Eggs@UkeleleEric @epistatacadam @pedestrians1st
I agree that the NFU is a strange beast - it’s lobbies in the interests of farmers, but is also an insurance company happy to take anyone’s money. I worked for them about 25 years ago - mostly insuring vehicles for taxi drivers, imported US vehicles and classic cars.
15 years ago I worked on land economy research projects and the effluent from factory farming as well as run off from fields in rivers was truly shocking.
@JugglingWithEggs @UkeleleEric @epistatacadam @pedestrians1st
The farmers, water companies, Environment Agency and successive governments thought they could suppress this research for years and do next to nothing about it. And it’s plain to see who has been whispering into Starmer’s ear following his attempts to make farmers pay inheritance tax properly like the rest of us.
HarriettMB@JugglingWithEggs @UkeleleEric @epistatacadam @pedestrians1st The ‘laws’ around agricultural pollution are virtually non-existent. River Wye & Lough Neagh being two examples of the horrors that result. Factory farms are owned by many levels of corporate ultimately ending in China, USA or elsewhere very tax efficient.