The UK supermarkets flogging industrial meat and dairy. New analysis from Sustain and Friends of the Earth 👇

🚨Factory farms in England have breached environmental regulations THOUSANDS of times in recent years

Violations include spilling animal waste into waterways, leaving dead animals in maggot-infested bins, and illegally incinerating pigs

thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-0…

'Maggot infestations' , ‘slurry pollution’ and 'illegal pig incinerations' found at England's megafarms Lucie Heath @andrew_wasley @tbij inews.co.uk/news/maggot-in…

🇬🇧 Toxic Gas From US-Style Chicken Farms Supplying UK Supermarkets

▫Regulators are concerned about the increased localisation of ammonia pollution in ‘megafarming hotspots’
▫Lucie Heath Andrew Wasley
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#frontpagestoday #UK i newspaper 🇬🇧

So pleased people looking into the air pollution impacts from intensive poultry, as well as river pollution. 👏

🚨Potentially harmful ammonia emissions from industrial-scale chicken farms are surging across certain regions of the UK

thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-0…

US-style chicken ‘mega-farms’ run by firms that supply meat to McDonald’s, Nando’s, Tesco and M&S are causing surges in emissions of a potentially deadly gas

My investigation with The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @andrew_wasley

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🚨 The US giant PepsiCo has been linked through its supply chain to Amazon deforestation and the invasion of Indigenous lands in Peru.

Pulitzer Center RIN Fellows Elisângela Mendonça (Lili) & Aramís Castro 🟡🔴, with Andrew Wasley for OjoPúblico, @mongabayorg, & The Bureau of Investigative Journalism 👇 bit.ly/3U8j2Fs

US orgs urge ban on Mexican avocados linked to deforestation freshfruitportal.com/news/2024/04/1…

'Nobody saw this coming'; California dairies scramble to guard herds against bird flu latimes.com/environment/st…

📢NEW REPORT
Today we launch our latest #research on recruitment to the Seasonal Worker Scheme in UK #agriculture .
Interviews with 400+ #workers found many face debt and misinformation❌
🌱The report: bit.ly/3TKoDSp
📰As reported by Financial Times: bit.ly/3U20k2v

In the US antibiotics can be used to encourage growth and compensate for poor conditions that would otherwise make animals sick.

For all our sakes we need to stop the overuse of antibiotics but to do this we must move away from factory farming.
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and The Hindu find the poultry producer is pushing antibiotics in ways that contribute to the spread of drug-resistant infections trib.al/EzAR05N
Andrew Wasley The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

🚨A major poultry producer in India is marketing the use of antibiotics to farmers in ways that contribute to the global spread of drug-resistant infections

thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-0…

Our factory farming map shows that the River Wye flows through an intensive farming hotspot - it's no surprise that it's being destroyed.

Something has to change.
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A joint investigation by ITV News and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has revealed that UK food chiefs could ban Polish chicken imports over rising salmonella infections.

itv.com/news/2024-03-1…

Ducks destined for supermarkets swung by necks and slammed into drawers independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

I am immensely proud of our team for putting another commodity on the deforestation map and grateful for the Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) ‘s support, which allowed us to do it. - Andrew Wasley, @ZukerFabio & Cícero

Breaking: Canada passed Bill C-275, a federal ag-gag bill that will criminalize the work of animal photojournalists exposing animal abuse on farms. The results of this vote are disheartening – for the animals, the state of photojournalism and the public.

weanimalsmedia.org/2023/11/30/our…

Misleading information about meat, dairy and alternative diets has appeared in almost 1 million social media posts over the course of 14 months 👉 bit.ly/47zuPlM