INDUSTRIALISATION OF DAIRY FARMING

Early day motion 220, tabled 14 June 2010 by Adrian Sanders (Liberal Democrat). Signed by 35 members.

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, many of which are pushed to extremely high milk yields; further notes that the 2009 report by the European Food Safety Authority which 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.

Signatures by party: Labour 21, Liberal Democrat 10, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, Conservative 1, Scottish National Party 1.