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Revealed: More than 24,000 factory farms have opened across Europe (www.theguardian.com)
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American-style intensive livestock farms are spreading across Europe, with new data revealing more than 24,000 megafarms across the continent.

In the UK alone, there are now 1,824 industrial-scale pig and poultry farms, according to the data obtained by AGtivist that relates to 2023.

The countries with the largest number of intensive poultry farm units are France, UK, Germany, Italy and Poland in that order. For poultry farming alone, the UK ranks as having the second-highest number of intensive farms at 1,553, behind France with 2,342.

The top 10 countries for intensive pig and poultry farms combined are Spain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, UK, Denmark, Poland, Belgium and Hungary, according to information obtained from the European Commission, and country-specific regulatory agencies and colleges.

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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 5 points 2 months ago

I am sure the prices of meat will go down because of economies of scale and other efficiencies

Trust me bro, I am from America, we have the best and cheapest of everything!

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

It's far more global than people think. Here's global estimates in 2019

We estimate that over 90% of farmed animals globally are living in factory farms at present. This includes an estimated 74% of farmed land animals (vertebrates only) and virtually all farmed fish.[1] However, there is substantial uncertainty in these figures given the land animal estimates’ heavy reliance on information from Worldwatch Institute with unclear methodology[2] and limited data on fish farming.

https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/global-animal-farming-estimates