@TheConversationUS Who had ‘Ticks saving the environment’ 
on their #AmericanCarnage2.0 BINGO card?! https://woods.stanford.edu/news/meats-environmental-impact
So, when I first saw this headline, I thought it was about the #UnitedStates making #EPA staffing cuts. Nope! It's the #UK! And this has been going on for a while now!
Thousands of #RiverPollution tests cancelled because of staff shortages
by Jonah Fisher, July 24, 2025
Excerpt: "Staffing problems are nothing new at the EA. In 2023 its chairman Alan Lovell told parliament that it had 'struggled with recruitment and retention of staff'.
"Internal emails obtained by campaign groups #Greenpeace and #Desmog through freedom of information requests were shared with the BBC. They show EA officials discussing the impact of staff departures on testing and saying that others planned to leave.
"One senior official, writing an email to her colleagues, said it was 'not good news I'm afraid' adding 'this isn't where we want to be (again)'.
"Helen Nightingale, who worked at the #EnvironmentAgency as a catchment planner, analysing data from its water quality programme until 2022, says that while she was there she saw a shift of focus away from serious investigation to trying to find 'successes'.
"She also said that morale was low: "The pay is not great – we didn't have pay rises for years due to #austerity.
" 'But a lot people are in it [the EA] because they want to make a difference – and when you're not even getting that - well, what's the point?'
"Documents seen by the BBC show that the work affected by the cuts to testing this year included investigations into the water industry in various parts of the country, and monitoring of #ProtectedAreas including the #RiverWye, which is currently facing a #pollution crisis linked to intensive #ChickenFarming."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx24xy8zgp4o
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/o15LD
Historic ruling in #Spain: Authorities violated human rights by failing to curb severe pollution caused by intensive pig farming in Galicia. A clear message: industrial agriculture is not just a political issue—it’s a human rights issue.
#HumanRights #Environment #FactoryFarming
#LettersAndPolitics welcomes investigative journalist #WillPotter, author of #LittleRedBarns: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable
https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-july-10-2025/
#factoryFarms #factoryFarming #CAFOs #crueltyToAnimals #BigAg #AgGagLaws #lawfare #USpol #animalWelfare #meatIndustry #books @bookstodon
#LettersAndPolitics welcomes investigative journalist #WillPotter, author of #LittleRedBarns: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable
https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-july-10-2025/
#factoryFarms #factoryFarming #CAFOs #crueltyToAnimals #BigAg #AgGagLaws #lawfare #USpol #animalWelfare #meatIndustry @bookstodon
Good news!
"A judge has ruled that Shropshire Council failed to consider the overall impact the poultry farm could have on the environment when passing the proposal for four large sheds in Felton Butler near Shrewsbury.
Scientist Dr Alison Caffyn, from Ludlow, who took the council to court amid fears for the River Severn, said it was a victory for communities across the UK who were standing up to factory farming"
Factory farming is increasing in the #EU, it is extremely cruel to the animals, damaging to the environment and bad for worker rights and wealth inequality. The #US has demonstrated all of this and to do the same is madness and stupidity.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/12/research-reveals-24000-megafarms-across-europe
Revealed: More than 24,000 factory farms have opened across Europe | Farming | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/12/research-reveals-24000-megafarms-across-europe
"Intensive livestock farms such as those found across the US are spreading across the continent, according to new data"
The Omnivore's Deception | John Sanbonmatsu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZq5KknPrN8
"The meat industry and its defenders promise ethical consumption and sustainable farming, but animal agriculture fuels ecological destruction, entrenches human supremacy, and masks cruelty with comforting myths. John Sanbonmatsu, philosopher and author of The Omnivore’s Deception, shatters the myths of “humane meat” and the 'naturalness' of eating meat, and explains why abolishing the animal economy is essential to living an ethical human life. "
As livestock numbers grow, wild animal populations plummet. Giving all creatures a better future will take a major rethink
https://theconversation.com/as-livestock-numbers-grow-wild-animal-populations-plummet-giving-all-creatures-a-better-future-will-take-a-major-rethink-256891
#meat #cattle #livestock #wildlife #Biodiversity #conservation #FactoryFarming #ExtinctionCrisis
This really just confirms what I've been saying, and its not at all surprising. All health epidemics are connected with animal abuse, and animal agriculture, all of them.
https://www.farmsanctuary.org/news-stories/first-woah-animal-health-report/
Major beef producers are selling beef as "antibiotic free" when it actually contains antibiotics. This was discovered last year, but no action was taken against Cargill, Tyson, and JBS.
It's reported that 70% of antibiotics used in the US are used in food and meat production.
With recent cut backs to USDA, expect more of this kind of deception.
#factoryfarming
#antibiotics
#AntibioticsResistance
https://sentientmedia.org/antibiotics-in-beef-raised-without-antibiotics/
It's no secret that animal agriculture in all parts of the world have been a breathing ground for disease and bastion for cruelty and abuse. The entire industry is toxic to the core. Its no wonder stationed vets are experiencing PTSD
This is how #FactoryFarming starts. First, they figure out how to breed animals in captivity, then they scale up to mass production, locking intelligent, sentient creatures into a life of suffering for profit.
#GrupoProfand claims this is about “sustainability”—that farming octopuses will ease pressure on wild populations. But octopuses aren’t livestock. They’re sentient, intelligent creatures who use tools, solve puzzles, and even dream.
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https://action.eko.org/a/shut-down-this-baby-octopus-lab?rd=1&source=fwd&t=10
A new #FactoryFarming nightmare is unfolding—#seafood giant #GrupoProfand just got the green light to experiment on baby octopuses in #Spain.
Their goal? Cracking the code on captive breeding to pave the way for the world’s first #OctopusFarm.
This new lab will experiment on baby #octopuses by manipulating their larval development—a critical hurdle that has prevented octopus farming from scaling up. 
#BanOctopusFarming #SaveOurSeas
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How decades of #factoryfarming paved the way for today’s #superbugs crisis - https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-03-13/how-decades-of-factory-farming-paved-the-way-for-todays-superbugs-crisis how #farmers' greed is driving us towards an avoidable disaster
“Your chicken is killing our rivers”: British icons take on Nando’s over supply chain
A group of high-profile figures—including celebrities, musicians, comedians, and campaigners such as Paul Whitehouse, Jo Brand, Joanna Lumley, Chris Packham, Liz Bonnin, George Monbiot, Johnny Flynn, Dominic West, Jim Murray, and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall—have united to pressure Nando’s to take responsibility for its environmental impact. They are calling on the restaurant giant to clean up its supply chain and tackle its contribution to severe river pollution.
#Pignorant een docu van Joey Carbstrong is nu gratis te bekijken via Just Watch.
https://www.justwatch.com/nl/movie/pignorant
#AnimalRights #FactoryFarming #Pigs #GoVegan
"In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka." Isaac Bashevis Singer
#horror #factoryfarming #meat #AnimalRights
