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Viva! Demands End to Factory Farming Campaigners will gather outside the Brighton Centre where the Labour party conference is being held to call for an end to factory farming. Protesters dressed in animal masks will unfold a giant banner proclaiming ‘It’s time to go Veggie’ over the scenes of burning funeral pyres during foot and mouth. Others will be holding placards and handing out leaflets. Viva! is calling for an end to industrialised agriculture, saying that the overcrowded conditions on factory farms and the vast distances which animals are made to travel from market to slaughter, cause diseases like foot and mouth to spread like wildfire. The vegetarian organisation is urging the government to end factory farming and start promoting organic, sustainable, non-animal agriculture. Viva!’s ‘Go Veggie’ leaflet contains hard, scientific information and explains the increased risks of food poisoning, heart disease, strokes and cancer for meat eaters. Kat Macmillan, Viva!’s Campaigner says, “Disease, infections and deadly superbugs are now part of the factory farming system and pose a serious threat to humans. “Nearly 900 million animals are killed
for meat every year, encouraged by subsidies and financial support. The
whole barbaric business has to end. Instead of ladling out cash to livestock
farmers, the government must act now and end factory farming, before it
ends us.” For further information contact Kat Macmillan or Becky Smith on: 0117 944 1000
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