I know we're talking IHT but on topic, due to the noise from Farmers there's going to be plenty more industrial agri hit pieces over the coming weeks.
When inspections did take place, 22% of farms were found not to meet animal welfare law standards but only 1% of non-compliances were prosecuted, a slight increase from 2018-21.
The plus side being more people will hopefully understand how fucked parts of agricultural practice are in this country, in terms of welfare, ecocide, economic viability of food production, farmer class priveleges, etc.
There needs to be a serious conversation about responsibsilities of entities that provide in essential sectors like food production, that also already receive incredibly heavy public purse subsidies (that invariably partly gets creamed into private profit). State needs to get serious about taking interests in agri if anything as a better foothold to regulate (practices and prices/value).
I know we're talking IHT but on topic, due to the noise from Farmers there's going to be plenty more industrial agri hit pieces over the coming weeks.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/20/uk-failing-animals-with-just-one-welfare-inspector-for-every-878-farms-report
The plus side being more people will hopefully understand how fucked parts of agricultural practice are in this country, in terms of welfare, ecocide, economic viability of food production, farmer class priveleges, etc.
There needs to be a serious conversation about responsibsilities of entities that provide in essential sectors like food production, that also already receive incredibly heavy public purse subsidies (that invariably partly gets creamed into private profit). State needs to get serious about taking interests in agri if anything as a better foothold to regulate (practices and prices/value).