Today (17th June), an item was posted on thepigsite.com titled ‘Environment campaigners step up protest’.
‘… UK – The Soil Association is stepping up its campaign opposing the building of a 2,500-sow farm at Foston in Derbyshire.
The Soil Association, the UK’s leading charity campaigning for planet-friendly food and farming, and the ‘Pig Business’ film team, activists fighting for food from farms not factories, are opposing the 2,500-sow farm in Foston Derbyshire.
Dominic West, star of TV police drama ‘The Wire’, is visiting the site to support the local opposition against a dramatic escalation of industrial pig farming in the UK.
This event will bring attention to a film called ‘The Dark Side of Factory Farming’, which is to be screened along with presentations on mega farms like Foston at Burton-on-Trent Town Hall on 23 June.
The public meeting is open to anyone interested in helping to stop the introduction of a proposed indoor pig factory in Foston and those who want to find out more about the harmful impacts these kind of super-sized systems may have on human health, the environment, local communities and animal welfare …’
Read the item in full at www.thepigsite.com/swinenews/26797/environment-campaigners-step-up-protest
Posted on June 17, 2011
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