Nocton Dairies Ltd - more famous faces

More famous faces join the fight against plans for Nocton super-dairy

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/famous-faces-join-fight-dairy-proposal/article-2768256-detail/article.html

This article mentions Jay Rayner's support of the plans for the intensive dairy in his Channel 4 programme 'Food: What Goes In Your Basket'. However, you may like to read an alternative view - Liz Jones' article 'Who wants a battery pinta when it tastes so good from a happy cow?' (see my blog entry of 17th October).

It is interesting to see some good questions being raised in the 'Comments' section to the Lincolnshire Echo article (Colin Mair, Coningsby). He is clearly thinking about the wider implications of the move to intensive dairying in the UK. It is exactly for these reasons why local campaigners http://www.caffo.co.uk/ are pushing for more debate around this important issue. People need to be much more informed about how their food is produced... only then will they be able to make decisions about what they buy, beyond just looking at the price ticket and nutritional values.

There are many links to articles in these blog pages which hopefully will widen understanding... including showing the impact of intensive food production on our environment as well.  This generation has some hard decisions to make... perhaps it is time to think more carefully about the origins of what we are putting on our plates and in our mouths... and to try and influence things for the better.

It's time we copied the Malaysians and ate less meat and dairy

David Nussbaum argues that changing our diets to less meat and dairy

http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/other_comments/632435/its_time_we_copied_the_malaysians_and_ate_less_meat_and_dairy.html

The water footprint: the hidden cost of our meat consumption

Watching our leaky taps is the least of our problems when it comes to water wastage - agricultural practices and animal products are by far the greater danger

http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/other_comments/582566/the_water_footprint_the_hidden_cost_of_our_meat_consumption.html