Farming Today This Week
Charlotte Smith looks at the conditions pigs, broiler chickens and dairy cattle face under standard welfare practice and asks if British farmers should do more.
Plans for the UK's largest dairy have been scaled down from more than 8,000 cows to fewer than 4,000 but they're still causing concern among animal welfare groups. Charlotte Smith looks into concerns about the practices and conditions in standard welfare farming for pigs, broiler chickens and dairy cows. Farmers explain why procedures like teeth clipping and tail docking of pigs are done and she asks whether enough consumers know or care enough to make a difference.
Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anne-Marie Bullock.
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- Sat 20 Nov 201006:30BBC Radio 4
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