Broken food chain
Animals in British factory farms are fed huge amounts of
protein to make them grow as fast as possible. Since the feeding of meat & bone
meal to animals was banned after the BSE crisis, most of this protein comes from
soy, imported from South America. There, precious habitats like
rainforests are cleared to make way for vast soy plantations.
Destroying these forests increases climate-changing gases in the atmosphere.
Small scale farmers, forced off their land by soy plantations, are now unable to
grow food for their families.
The industry is pulling the plug on the Earth's free life-support
systems - which provide us with clean water, healthy soil and air that
we can breathe.
The global chain also fails UK farmers, leaving them vulnerable
to fluctuating international commodity prices, rather than being able to use
locally grown foods for their animals.
The meat and dairy industry produces more climate-changing emissions than every
plane, train and car on the planet - 18% of the global total.
- UN Food and Agriculture Organization
The Food Chain campaign isn't about getting rid of meat and dairy farming - it's
about getting Government to revolutionise it.
We want to see them change the deal behind our meals. This
means:
- Shifting subsidies away from factory farming - more support for small, sustainable planet-friendly farms instead.
- Supporting farmers to grow their own animal feed.
- Supermarkets offering fairer deals for everyone.