Farming Today This Week: Intensive Farming
Caz Graham hosts a discussion on intensive animal farming with a panel from Compassion in World Farming, the Royal Agricultural University and Bristol University Veterinary School.
Caz Graham hosts a discussion on the subject of intensive livestock farming with a panel of experts. What might look like cramped and cruel living conditions to some, often pass every health and welfare check with flying colours. But some consumers don't always feel comfortable about the way we keep animals on farms. Farming Today reports from a large dairy farm where cows live indoors all year round and never set foot in a field; a beef unit with over a thousand animals which supplies a major supermarket and a large broiler farm where chickens are grown for meat and kept in huge barns. Peter Stevenson from Compassion in World Farming; Professor David Main of the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester; and Dr Siobhan Mullan from the Bristol University Veterinary School discuss the issues raised.
Presented by Caz Graham
Produced by Alun Beach.
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- Sat 21 Jul 2018 06:30大象传媒 Radio 4
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