7 thoughts on “The Little Farm Of Horrors”

  1. Drogg

    Em this doesn’t really apply very much to Ireland yes there is factory farms here but most animal farmed for meat and eggs here are free range as it is why our products are such good quality as they are grazed on our natural grasslands.

    1. dereviled

      Pigs and chickens, Drogg, lots of them.
      http://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/er/ps/pigsurveyjune2014/#.Va1Ejdm9Kc0
      From ciwf.ie
      “Figures from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for 2010 showed there were slightly more than 2.2 million egg-laying hens in the Republic of Ireland. At that time, just over half of these were kept in barren battery cages”
      (Were you being sarcastic?)
      Farming here has changed immeasurably in one generation, most beef cattle are kept on concrete slats for 6 months of the year.
      http://www.teagasc.ie/research/reports/beef/4425/eopr-4425.pdf

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