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Just went out to walk Watson and can smell the gross Tyson chicken houses down the street. I hope the Trump economy devastates the industrial meat industry that destroys rural communities. Sorry not sorry. #FactoryFarms
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Factory Farms Cost UK Taxpayers Over 1.2 Billion Pounds Per Year, Says New Report
The report estimates that 85 percent of #FarmingSubsidies for chicken and pig farmers are absorbed by #FactoryFarms, which is around £269 million per year.
#FactoryFarming is linked to extensive environmental #pollution and related #PublicHealth issues. The report estimates the cost of #water and #air pollution from factory farms to be £518 million, while the cost of increased respiratory deaths is around £92 million.
https://plantbasednews.org/news/environment/factory-farms-uk-taxpayers-report/
Plant Based News · Factory Farms Cost UK Taxpayers Over 1.2 Billion Pounds Per Year, Says New ReportA report by the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation (CAWF) finds that factory farming costs UK taxpayers over GBP £1.2 billion per year
Sorry, but This Is the Future of Food https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/opinion/food-agriculture-factory-farms-climate-change.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hU4.C3Vd.gG3uFpobphZd
#gift #agriculture #food #regenerativeagriculture #gore #pollan #beef #FactoryFarms
This article gets it exactly right.
The New York Times · Opinion | Sorry, but This Is the Future of Food
I am an Octopus (Narrated by Peter Egan)
I am an octopus trapped in a tiny tank,
Crowded prison cells, which they call farms.
It’s dark, dirty and deadly,
I can’t stretch my eight arms.
I am an octopus trapped in a tiny tank.
No solitude or peace, I weep and shake,
So a greedy two-armed man can take cash to the bank.
I don’t yet know how to get out and dream of escape…
I am an octopus who is free to roam the salty seas.
With eight arms I jet along the ocean floor.
I crawl, I climb and through rocks I squeeze,
To forage for food and explore.
When I feel sleepy or want to hide away,
I build a den using shells from scallops and clams.
When I see a shark, I fear I’ll become prey,
So my skin goes lumpy, bumpy, and changes color.
My home, the ocean, is dying.
Men steal fishes from the sea to feed us.
They say breeding us will save the planet, but they are lying.
The octopus farms cause me and the ocean so much harm.
The two-armed man artificially impregnates the females.
Then he prods and stabs us to find out how best to kill us.
Big business is trying to play God,
But Mother Nature strikes back with climate chaos.
I am an octopus but I am like you.
On the surface we may look very different -
Your blood is red and mine is blue,
You have one brain and I have nine.
Don’t eat my brainy arms,
They think and feel and are not for you to chew!
Drop your knife and raise your placards,
And shout out ‘NO, to octopus farms!’
Make your one heart big,
Listen to my one, two, three hearts beat.
The free rhythms of this short song called life
Ring-a-ding-ding ring–a-ding-ding, be my octopus defender!
Swimming in the ocean I feel so alive,
Now planet Earth can bustle and thrive.
Dive deep and show compassion,
Link your arms in octopus fashion,
And sign the Plant Based Treaty!
They wander through the ocean and seas,
To undo the damage we have done.
So let’s eat plants and plant trees,
And preach that all life is one,
And that when humans wish to harm other animals, they really do evil to themselves.
Narration by: Peter Egan
Script written by: Nicola Harris, Anita Krajnc
Compassion in World Farming's new undercover investigation, released 4th November, exposes the immense suffering of around 70 million rabbits still caged on farms across Europe and reinforces the urgent need for the European Commission to deliver its promised #CageBan.
Anthony Field, Head of our UK Office, said: “This investigation clearly shows the systemic cruelty of caged farming across Europe. This is not about a couple of bad farms mistreating animals in certain countries, this is representative of caged rabbit farming throughout the EU in the absence of species-specific requirements for the welfare of farmed rabbits in EU law.
“Cages simply cannot meet the physiological and behavioural needs of farmed animals, and their use is unnecessary.."
https://www.ciwf.org.uk/news/2024/11/cruelty-expose-reinforces-crucial-need-for-eu-cage-ban
Compassion in World Farming · Cruelty exposé reinforces crucial need for EU cage ban
Friends of The Earth: Our new video shows how #soybeans grown in South America feed #livestock in Northern Ireland. And in turn, how their #waste feeds the toxic algae that have a chokehold on Lough Neagh. Watch and share – let's raise the alarm
The Tyson factory farm down the street smells so bad tonight I can't tolerate being outside. It's 0.25 miles away. I frequently wonder what it's like for the tens of thousands of chickens stuffed inside the huge houses with no windows. Nasty and extremely unsanitary. They'll all end up in the grocery store in pretty cellophane, at McDonald's, or Chik Fil A. #Tennessee #Chicken #FactoryFarms #Vegan
UK's governmental petitions (1/8):
Introduce bans to stop consumption of rabbit meat by humans and pets
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/659576
Ban the importation and selling of Foie Gras in the UK
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/652764
Ban the culling of male chicks
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/653026
Make factory farms illegal
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/653833
Ban pork from being served in schools
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/649490
Outlaw the trade of 'live food' in pet stores in the UK
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/655474
Ban the captivity of dolphins, whales, and porpoises in England
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/650377
Allow vegans to opt-out of paying taxes that subsidise animal agriculture
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/658518
Petitions - UK Government and ParliamentPetition: Introduce bans to stop consumption of rabbit meat by humans and petsWe want the Government to ban the killing of rabbits for human and pet consumption, as well as the import export of rabbit meat. We believe there are poor safeguarding controls for rabbit welfare, and that slaughter methods are barbaric and unethical.
Antibiotics Use on Factory Farms is Rising - What Does this Mean for Humanity? #AnimalRights #AnimalAgriculture #FactoryFarms #health #antibiotics https://www.speciesunite.com/news-stories/antibiotics-use-on-factory-farms-is-rising
Species UniteAntibiotics Use on Factory Farms is Rising - What Does this Mean for Humanity? — Species UniteAntimicrobial resistance is one of the top global public health and development threats.
I just went outside and can smell the Tyson chicken factory farm 1/2 mile away. I just checked the weather station and there's no wind. Usually when there's just even a bit of wind, it blows the odor somewhere else. It's pretty gross that the smell just oozes out around the chicken houses for such a huge distance. #FactoryFarms #Chickens
I'm texting with my neighbor down the street directly across from the Tyson factory farm. She says it's smelled really bad over there for 3 weeks. She said the dumbass owner is over there right now pulling dead chicken carcasses out of the four houses and piling them in big dump trucks. The live chickens in the houses have been living in there with hundreds of dead chickens for many days. A lot of dead chickens go in a compost pile outside and we smell that too. #FactoryFarms #Chickens
Went outside this lovely morning to drink some coffee on the patio. Immediately smelled chicken shit and a vague chemical smell from the Tyson factory farm 1/2 mile away. Went back inside. I hate industrial meat production so much, those greedy assholes ruin life for so many rural residents like me. When people ask me why I am now a vegan, this is why. #TysonSucks #FactoryFarms #Vegan
#AnimalRights Activist Convicted of #Felony for Rescuing Sick #Chickens
Animal rights activist and #lawyer Wayne Hsiung and fellow activists with animal liberation group, Direct Action Everywhere, #DxE, were found guilty of felony #conspiracy and two misdemeanor charges on for rescuing ailing animals from #factoryfarms. Convicted of felony conspiracy to commit misdemeanor #trespass; the punishment for planning to trespass is far heftier than for trespassing itself. https://theintercept.com/2023/11/04/animal-rescue-wayne-hsiung-dxe/ #vegan
The Intercept · Animal Rights Activist Convicted of Felony for Rescuing Sick Chickens
The Blood of Pregnant Mares Fuels Factory Farming – Literally #AnimalRights #horses #AnimalAgriculture #factoryfarms #factoryfarming https://sentientmedia.org/horse-blood-factory-farms/
Sentient MediaThe Blood of Pregnant Mares Fuels Factory Farming — LiterallyFemale horses are drained of blood to provide a hormone used in pork production worldwide.