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More than 200 factory farms set up in UK in five years ‘creating living hell for animals’

Source: World Animal Protection

More than 200 factory farms have been set up in the UK in just five years, creating what campaigners called “a living hell” for an extra 139 million animals.

Numbers of intensive systems have ballooned by 13 per cent, with 209 more intensive pig and poultry units, according to a new report which looked at the latest available figures.

In 2017 there were 236 ; by 2022 there were 268,

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