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MORE THAN 6,500 PEOPLE JOIN CAMPAIGN OPPOSING FACTORY PIG FARM IN U.K.


Documentary filmmakers start petition on Change.org asking Derbyshire Planning Authority to vote against proposed, industrial-scale pig farm


More than 6,500 people have signed an online petition asking the Derbyshire County Council to vote against a proposed factory pig farm in the village of Foston, Derbyshire. The campaign urges all U.K. residents to sign the petition on Change.org and register their opposition on the Derbyshire County Council’s Web site. More than 7,500 people have spoken out against the factory farm on the County Council’s Web site.


“Cheap pork is flooding U.K. supermarket shelves from mainland Europe where, according to Compassion in World Farming (CIWF), 90 percent of the farms are not obeying European Union animal welfare legislation,” said Tracy Worcester, director of the documentary Pig Business. “Instead of trying to compete with these cheap imports by building mega farms with a few small improvements in terms of animal welfare and green credentials, our government should be ensuring that our small-scale family farms receive payments that reflect their benefits to society.”


The petition on Change.org, the world’s fastest-growing platform for social change, was started by the makers of Pig Business, a documentary that explores the health, animal welfare and environmental impacts of industrial-scale pig farms. If approved, Midland Pig Producers’ farm would become the third-largest factory farm in all of the U.K., housing more than 25,000 pigs and sending more than 1,000 to slaughter every week. Large-scale factory farms like the proposed operation are quite common throughout the United States, but are still relatively rare in the U.K.


“If the Derbyshire County Council approves Midland Pig Producers’ operation, it would open the door for more factory farms in the U.K.,” said Sarah Parsons, Change.org’s Sustainable Food Editor. “The factory farm might bring big business to Midland Pig Producers, but it would devastate the area’s environment and residents’ quality of life.”


As Pig Business highlights, factory farm owners typically feed their animals a daily dose of antibiotics, spawning the growth of drug-resistant bacteria like MRSA ST398, a new disease which passes from pigs to humans.. These industrial-scale agricultural operations also pollute air and waterways, produce noxious odours, decrease property values in the surrounding areas and put small, ecologically minded producers out of business.


Many notable environmentalists and organizations like The Soil Association, local MP Heather Wheeler, and actor Dominic West have all publicly opposed a factory pig farm in Foston. A decision on the Midland Pig Producers’ agricultural operation will likely come as early as September.


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Environmental Waste


International Inc announced that the TR900 Pilot Plant (TR900) has successfully completed a major milestone. Recent testing of the TR900 resulted in the processing of 20 tyres and fully met EWS' expectations. This test demonstrated the technical viability of a production scaled TR900 system. The TR900 was able to process tyres and successfully separated the majority of the steel, recycled carbon, oil and hydrocarbon gases. The goal of this first processing was to validate the system's design and the EWS Reverse Polymerization(TM) process. This goal was achieved. EWS is testing samples of the recovered products to analyze their composition, to determine the efficiency of the separation process and to identify future improvements to the system. The Company is continuing to work on system programming and adjustments as it moves towards the next production milestone of using the tyre gas to fuel the power generation system. EWS is also focused on completing the work required to allow for continuous operation of the TR900 for extended periods of time.


EWS has also designed processors for the environmentally safe sterilization and disposal of medical, biological, liquid and food waste and for the recovery of usable by-products from other organic sources. EWS continues to explore other applications for its technology.


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