This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Thursday, 18 February 2021
Ignoble?
River Action is starting a campaign against agribusinesses, causing damage to UK rivers with apparent impunity (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/18/river-action-targets-agri-businesses-in-campaign-to-stop-pollution). River Action have initially focused on Noble Foods a company operating enormous 'free-range' poultry farms near the river Wye. Run-off from the farms (containing lots of nitrogenous waste), is clearly causing substantial damage to this river. The company sell their eggs as being more ethical than counterparts produced in factory farms. River Action feel that such companies must take responsibility for their environmental impacts on rivers, if they intend to advertise the virtues of their products. River Action are writing to them but they are largely doing so, because zero action has been taken about the pollution by environmental agencies.
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