Tory Tosh About Caring For Rural Areas - 2

Heard the story about children who don't know milk comes from cows, and think it arrives in the supermarket from a factory that puts it into bottles?

That childish ignorance is in danger of becoming true.

Increased financial pressures on dairy farmers are pushing farmers towards an unwelcome and unhealthily intensive Dairy 'Industry'. More and more cows are seen as nothing but milk production factory units.

Alan Meale, Labour MP for  Mansfield, on 3rd June tabled an Early Day Motion

EDM 144 - LEVELS OF INDUSTRIALISATION IN UK DAIRY HERDS
That this House is aware of the pressures building within the agricultural and related industries in the UK towards greater levels of industrialisation in UK dairy farming, with the direct consequence of growing numbers of cows being kept indoors for most of their lives; and notes the 2009 Report of the European Food Safety Authority, which concluded that the factory farming of dairy cows should end, not least because such breeding and practices for higher milk yields are major factors causing poor health and welfare in dairy herds.

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In the three weeks since then sixteen Labour MPs and only oneTory MP have signed their support for the EDM

If you want to help prevent the trend towards intensive factory-farming practices harmful to cows you can lobby Central Devon's Tory MP Mel Stride. Ask him to sign the EDM and also to be pro-active on the issue - his contact details are here

But he may not want to upset his neighbouring Tory MP Neil Parish, MP for Tiverton and Honiton, who has this to say in the 6th April 2010 edition of Meat Trade News Daily