Letter: Factory farming is cruel to animals
Friday 24th June 2011, 6:00AM BST.
Letter: With the proposed factory for cows at Leighton, near Welshpool, where cows will be incarcerated in a factory and where, if the floodgates open, you will no longer see dairy cows in fields anymore.
Of all the objections put forward, I was amazed to learn that the welfare side of it cannot be a consideration when objecting.
The subject matter, the cows, surely should be a high priority? The law is flawed and yet again big business is the God, to the exclusion of living animals. Welfare for animals takes an ever decreasing priority.
If this cow factory is given the go-ahead, it could open the floodgates, where we could see the day when you no longer have cows in fields, much like battery chickens.
In this case, it seems cows are potentially going to be treated like cabbages or any factory product. Indeed cabbages would be better treated, out in the open.
Just how much further do we squeeze and abuse farm animals?
Mr J Ball
Newtown
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The supermarkets will still feature a picture of a happy farmer amidst rolling, green pastures and a herd of Fresians roaming in the distance on the packaging.
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Do the majority of people care ?
The answer sadly is no.
I think our nation is a very cruel nation as far as animals and birds are concerned.
I am not sure why that is.
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Actually, we are a nation with one of the best commercial animal welfare records in the world. Most european countries still keep calves in poor conditions just because it apparently makes the veal nicer. We were one of the first to rule it out as a means of rearing.
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Maybe the cows will be happier resting in comfort on clean bedding, out of the rain, with room service – instead of trudging back and forth in the rain, and being annoyed by people and dogs
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The Deal is this:
Tesco and other supermarkets make BILLIONS per annum in profits from British farmers
City dwellers get a cheap supply of milk and milk products (food is now cheaper than it’s ever been as a % of income). At least 30% of this gets thrown away.
Farmers and therefore the countryside in general suffer. Dairy farmers are going out of buisines at a rate of two per week. The rest make very little profit indeed.
The solution is seen as further industrialisation of food production. Farming is becoming industrial agri-business. Corporate greed is the only philosophy left in Great Britain plc: make a fast buck and to hell with the consequences.
Animal husbandry is NOT an industrial process. If you destroy the small family farms, you destroy the countryside as a whole: biodiversity, wildlife, tourism, the very fabric of the nation.
The powerbrokers are the liberal URBAN elite. They know and care nothing of rural life. Even less about animal welfare.
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