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Politic's from the Green's

 

Millions of animals across Europe live short, brutal lives in barren factory farms. Industrial animal farming – 'factory farming' – is a highly inefficient way of producing food. It damages the environment, creates pollution, overuses water, requires intensive application of drugs to combat infection and disease, reduces food security and treats animals as machines, not as sentient beings. Greens are completely opposed to factory farming and will push for:

 

• the adoption of higher legal standards for all farmed animals. In particular, standards must be established to protect the welfare of beef cattle, ducks, geese, rabbits and farmed fish. Standards for dairy cows and goats must include mandatory and substantive access to grazing. Pig farrowing crates to be banned;

 

• a ban on cages for laying hens;

 

• improved food labelling and better traceability of our food to prevent further food scandals such as the horse-meat scandal;

 

• mandatory labelling of meat and dairy products as to the country of source, method of production and the method of slaughter;

 

• mandatory CCTV in all slaughterhouses;

 

• tougher regulations on animal transport, including a maximum of eight hours and an end to live export from the UK;

 

• action on the overuse of antibiotics in intensive animal farming;

 

• encourage the reduction in consumption of meat, dairy and other animal products, with promotion and education around alternative diets, recognising that animal free diets can be devised and followed for every life stage;

 

• a ban on the cloning of farm animals, the sale of clones and their offspring and the sale of meat and milk from such animals;

 

• shift subsidies away from animal farming and towards more sustainable food crops.