Factory Farming

[Coldicote]

In view of the conditions described in the recent bird flu outbreak on a turkey farm, is it time to outlaw factory farming?

[Marvelman]

it is, if you want to pay a lot more for your chicken or turkey, it would be to expensive for a lot of people to afford,

[zigzag]

fantastic querry Coldicote
i'm sure that will cure all the poultry illnesses
whats the question again?

[Coldicote]

The point was not about curing illnesses, but about the unnatural conditions in which thousands of birds and animals are reared.

[TheGopher]

Factory farming obviously meant that the disease spread like wildfire, so it is relevant.

I personally think factory farming should be abolished. It is the worse form of animal cruelty. If people ate more expensive, humanely produced meat, but far less of it; and relied on other cheaper food sources, such as vegetables and pulses to their diet, then we would be a healthier nation.

Whilst people insist on eating loads of poultry and loads of meat and are blinkered to the cruelty involved, then factory farming will continue.

[gundog]

The way to stop factory farming is not to buy the product.
Support your local farmers market etc. It may be more expensive, but if more people did it then prices would come down and factory farmers would have to change their tactics. A long slow process I agree but he meat tastes better.