Quantum
HEALTH
Issue 10 March 2011
GOOD MONTH FOR: BRITISH COWS
Noctorn Dairy Backs Down from Plans For Indoor 3,700 Cow ‘Unit’.
After a year of fervent campaigning by animal and environmental welfare groups and the subsequent humiliation of being ‘black-listed’ by the U.K’s leading supermarkets and the objection from the Environment Agency; Noctorn Dairy finally withdraws plans for its factory dairy farm in Lincolnshire in the UK.
The Environment Agency expressed concerns regarding the potential for pollution to seep into the groundwater, which is drawn for use as drinking water.
The initial plans for Noctorn’s were put forward in December 2009 and quickly drew widespread objections from politicians, local residents and animal welfare organisations.[1]
Over 170 Members of Parliament signed a House of Commons EDM (Early Day Motion) EDM1037
http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails. aspx?EDMID=40663 opposing the ‘super dairy’ and echoing the concerns of local residents.
Concerns raised ranged across a broad spectrum of topics from health, animal welfare and pollution to the possible damage of Roman remains. [2]
The plant would have been a £34m, round- the-clock 3,770 cow-unit, (originally applied for as 8,100 cow unit) and double the size of
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Britain’s biggest dairy Farm. The farmers had originally planned to keep the cows indoors for the majority of the time. In response to a back- lash from protestors who were mortified by Noctorn’s “zero-grazing” policy, a new proposal was given designating cows to grass “loafing areas” outside their housing for up to seven hours on dry days between April and October.[3]
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cows would have been fed entirely on artificial products, producing up to 58 pints each of milk a day. Environmental factors were also considered and believed to be an “industrial unsustainable vision.”[4]
Emma Hockridge, head of policy at the Soil Association, comments: “This is good news, particularly for struggling small and family dairy farmers. Already up to three dairy farmers give up in Britain every day and the unit was likely to mean yet more small family farms go out of business. Nocton was a potential animal welfare disaster and highlighted the way in which our farming systems have become increasingly divorced from what nature intended.”
A small victory for the British cow and a temporary halt to a new era of industrial milk- farming in the U.K
But the Soil Association urges the public to keep the momentum going by joining their Not in my Banger campaign for the battle has not yet been
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