Huge Pig Farm development in Derbyshire - when I say huge I mean mahoosive.....

I haven't time to read the reports Zaz, but isn't this going to be a factory farm for pigs? They are going to create 20 jobs ! and are claiming to be environment friendly on the basis that "Ploughing land, for example, is now deemed detrimental to soil structure" (so it's better to keep those diggy piggies in a shed) http://www.mppfoston.com/The%20Next%...Revolution.pdf


Round here the pigs are all free-range, they don't smell either.

Pretty poor, given the amount of space around the area. There's quite a large pig farm I see next to the M5 going south bound towards Exeter - outdoor though... they've been there years, so it must be a viable business. These folks are obviously just after the money only. Though, at the end of the day it's consumers driving the demand I suppose

Yes - it certainly is.

Petition duly signed.

Thanks RL. x

The proposed pig factory farm would house about 2,500 mother pigs (sows) and 25,000 piglets, with about 1,000 pigs going to slaughter every, single week. This industrial-scale farming operation is way too huge to be considered sustainable.

Absolutely horrid.

Signed, shared on Facebook and tweeted!

Outrageous....

Those poor pigs. Shouldn't be allowed, hope it isn't allowed to go ahead.

Watched the video and signed.

Popped a planning objection on environmental grounds in the other day for it. I Really hate intensively farmed food like this.

Is it just me or do we always seem to take one step forward and then two steps back with animal welfare? Its beyond me. Signed.

Indeed, great news re battery chickens, then theres the hoohar about dairy batteries, and now pigs! What next? Will they cage sheep and feed them on some rapid growing grass/pellet combination?

I've signed the petition Zazz. Thank you for the opportunity to object.

Foston is not far from here. There was a Young Offenders prison in the village. Can you imaging the outcry if they tried to treat the inmates in the same way as they are proposing to treat the pigs and piglets.

As I say Foston is not far from here. It's not nimbyism that I object. It is the potential cruelty of the treatment of so many animals. It just beggars belief.

When OH and I married in 1966 the supermarkets were usually very small, and did not have a very big share of the retail market. They have gradually grown into monsters who supply everything not very well. OH used to tell me 'you don't buy meat from a supermarket, you buy it from a butcher. I had to agree with him. Supermarket meat is usually of very poor quality (particularly Tesco).

We are extremely lucky insofar as where we do our main shop each week there is a small Sainsburys, a small Co-op and Waitrose have recently taken over Somerfield. There are two wonderful independent butchers, a fishmongers, a very good greengrocery shop.

There are other shops as well as food, but that's what we tend to go for.

I think the supermarkets will be behind this as an outlet of cheapo crappo.

Each month we go to Bakewell Farmers' Market where the produce, if not organic, is free range. From there we go to Chatsworth Farm Shop. Not the cheapest meat on the planet, but it has been sourced from the estate or tenant farmers. We have yet to have bad meat from there.

I agree with Hugh F-W don't stop eating meat, just be selective, and buy the best, and eke it out a bit.

valmarg

I signed the petition, and emailed the council re: the planning application

Yes I have been following the developments closely with CIWF and the Soil Assoc. I have also signed this petition, but would encourage grapes to sign the other petitions too :
Soil Association : Not in my banger