Industrialisation Of Dairy Farming

EDM number 220 in 2010-12, proposed by Adrian Sanders on 14/06/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Agriculture and Animal welfare.

That this House notes that pressures are building for the increasing industrialisation of UK dairy farming, and that a growing number of cows are being kept indoors for all or most of the year and many are pushed to extremely high milk yields; further notes the 2009 report by the European Food Safety Authority concluded that breeding for high milk yield is the major factor causing poor health and welfare in cows; and believes that the factory farming of dairy cows must be brought to an end.

This motion has been signed by a total of 35 MPs.