INDUSTRIALISATION OF DAIRY FARMING

Early day motion 20, tabled 9 May 2012 by Adrian Sanders (Liberal Democrat). Signed by 24 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 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 14, Liberal Democrat 7, Conservative 1, Green 1, Plaid Cymru 1.