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Chicken farms risk turning {Shropshire's] rivers into 'dead zones' - see the rivers at risk (www.shropshirestar.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The county's waterways along with rivers across Herefordshire and Powys are at risk, the Soil Association claims.

Analysis from the food and farming charity has revealed that the British public is blind to the scale and growth of the industrial chicken meat sector, which has been expanding at a rate of one million birds per month since 2014.

Today, it has reached more than a billion birds per year.

The industry is a leading cause of “dead zones” in the River Wye, where the muck from 20 million chickens has contributed to phosphate pollution that causes algal blooms, suffocating plants and starving wildlife that depend on them.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Chicken litter is actually an excellent fertilizer. It's pretty dumb that they're letting it get into the water instead of using it on crops.