A plan to create one of Europe’s largest livestock farms, sparking 15,000 objections...
Local residents and environmental groups warn of health risks, pollution, and climate impact from plans to create a chicken and pig megafarm that will spread across the villages of Methwold and Feltwell.
Local residents and environmental groups warn of health risks, pollution, and climate impact from plans to create a chicken and pig megafarm that will spread across the villages of Methwold and Feltwell.
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If you don’t want to be funding this (& *this* is the grim reality of where much of the meat/dairy industry is/is heading), go vegan.
Inspite of the environmental catastrophe in the Wye valley, we're clearly not learning (or is it caring?)...It's getting harder to distinguish 😒
Vegan 🌱
Mega (or is in MAGA) farms are never healthy for any living creature.
The most sensible long-term investment is in agriculture that is actually sustainable.
You're ignoring vertical farming, hydro- and aeroponics and several other controlled-environment agricultural methods. These are already being used right now to produce food at scale.
There are more exotic modes of production too.
For example, try finding an iceberg lettuce in the supermarket grown in the ground rather than in a hydroponic warehouse. Growing takes 6 weeks instead of 16.
We could optimise for sustainability instead of profitability.
What economically viable really means is can the rich get richer from it.
Bear in mind however why our current agricultural paradigms are considered "economically viable". It requires a lot of petro-derived fertilisers but oil isn't limitless and won't be this cheap forever. 1/
When will humans learn diversity works better.
More smaller distantly spaced farms - not mega-ones.
https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/no1-british-free-range-whole-chicken/981132-828845-828846
https://www.gazegillorganics.co.uk/whole-organic-chicken-118-p.asp
We are too small to be self sufficient in food, but the caloric loss in production to support meat is significant; were intensive farms phased out, the economy *would* adjust. Aaand food poverty *could* be reduced. 🤷
Which is why Norfolk are right to say ‘eff off’.