Women's Institute to oppose factory farming ?

[Big Good Wolf]

One of the two subjects up for discussion at this year's WI AGM in June is factory farming.

“This meeting abhors the practice of factory farming particularly large animals such as pigs and cows and urges H.M. Government to ensure planning permission is not granted for such projects.”

This resolution appears to have been inspired by the proposed dairy at Nocton, although there is clearly more to it than one farm.

Women's Institute

The resolutions

Response from the NFU

Article on Farming Online

Article on Farmer's Weekly Interactive

I'm never too sure where I stand in the ongoing Welfare v Abolition debate, and I don't know how much real influence the WI have, but this seems like a step in the right direction to me.
If anyone has been thinking about joining the WI to get the 10% discount at Julian Graves, now is the time to do it.

[Konstantin]

I'm never too sure where I stand in the ongoing Welfare v Abolition debate

Nor am I. But I like this because it's raising the issue among a traditional audience and is hopefully going to make people think. For me it started with thinking I would continue to eat animal products including meat but not from factory farmed animals, but once the ball started rolling, it continued to veganism.

I'm not sure that the whole intenstive farming practice will collapse as a result of this, but good on 'em.