The Farmers Mart Dec/Jan 2016 - Issue 43 | Page 26

Arable

‘Cheap Food Costs Dear’
»»A new report entitled Cheap
Food Costs Dear, was launched at the
Oxford Real Farming Conference earlier
this month. Peter Stevenson, Compassion’s
Chief Policy Advisor, discussed his new
report written on behalf of the charity
Compassion in World Farming. In it, he
explores the impact of factory farming on
people and the planet as well as the cost of
industrial livestock production.
In compiling this report, Peter said: “The
essential purpose is to highlight the deep
concerns and imbalance surrounding
factory farming.
“It’s important we remain acutely
conscious of the long term and potentially
irreversible impact the rearing of animals
on an industrial scale has on our health and
environment.”

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