I tend to collect qualifications, I've just completed 'Trust in Our Food: Understanding Food Supply Systems' on http://FutureLearn.com , just to expand my knowledge and fill any gaps, the course was by @EITFood

Find me a single UK farm that meets 'The 5 freedoms for animals' 🇬🇧
The course material stated that these five freedoms were standard practice, what a joke, they had obviously never been to a farm in their lives!
While it is often claimed that the UK is one of the countries with the highest standards of animal welfare worldwide, the reality is that around 73% of farmed animals in the UK are kept in factory farms.
They spend their lives in overcrowded, barren barns or cages, deprived of fresh air, natural light and the ability to express their natural behaviours.
There is scarcely a county in England now without at least one industrial-scale livestock farm, with close to 800 US-style mega-farms operating across the UK. It is all part of a 26% rise in intensive animal farming in Britain in six years.
In the land that prides itself on being a nation of animal lovers, factory farming is transforming the British countryside.
Mega farms and industrial-scale farms have attracted attention because of concerns raised by local residents, over smell, noise and the potential for pollution or disease outbreaks, and by animal welfare campaigners...
...who argue that factory-style farming in which livestock are rarely or never permitted outdoors prevents animals from expressing their natural behaviour.
There is ongoing concern that mega farms push smaller farmers out of business, leading to the takeover of the countryside by large agribusinesses, with the loss of traditional family-run units.
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