Many words we use come with hidden baggage. For instance we tend to assume that local, natural and grass-fed foods are good for our health, the environment and animal welfare, while intensive farming ...

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PLANS have been thrown out for an intensive poultry farm for 144,000 birds – which received thousands of objections from residents and animal rights charities. The proposal to create the factory farm ...

Intensive livestock farming could raise the risk of new pandemics, researchers have warned. Industrialised farming is often thought to reduce the risk of zoonotic diseases (those transmitted from ...

A 30,000-signature petition calling on the government to clean up the Wye and other rivers affected by industrial poultry production will be presented to Parliament, a charity has said. Soil ...

Residents in a Northumberland hamlet are campaigning against plans for new intensive chicken shed at a nearby farm. Well House Farm, in Colwell, has applied for planning permission to build four ...