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A new report has branded intensive factory farming as a danger to human health and animal welfare. 'Industrial animal agriculture - the next global health crisis?', published yesterday by the World Society for the Protection of Animals, blames industrial agriculture for diseases such as BSE and avian flu.
As AMs in Cardiff Bay view a video today that challenges claims by Defra that the 2001 foot-and- mouth epidemic was spread by airborne infections, scientists predict a growing risk from diseases that can jump the species barrier.See the full content of this document
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Industrial Farming of Animals Blamed for Making Us Ill
The report will be presented to a World Health Organisation conference in Mexico this week.
The Government has rejected repeated demands for a full public inquiry into th...See the full content of this document
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