SchNEWS 759 - 18th February 2011

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Issue 759 Articles:

Middle Eastern Promise

Crap Arrest Of The Week

Commission Accomplished

Shac To The Lab Again

Cheesed Off

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CHEESED OFF

Plans for Britain’s biggest intensive dairy farm in Lincolnshire have been axed. Nocton Dairies Ltd failed to convince the Environment Agency that the development, which was to house a massive 3770 cows in indoor conditions, would not impact on an aquifier underground at the site.

The super-dairy had been opposed by an alliance of animal rights and agricultural charities, including CAFFO (Campaign Against Factory Farming Operations)

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