What intensive farming means -- for the animals and for the environment. (BBC Countryfile)

1. this guy is talking shit if he thinks animals aren't treated like crap in the uk
2. I can bet all these animals would enjoy doing what they want outside under the sun and walking on green grass. Moreover, all that animals eat (grains, not antibiotics ;)!) can be fed to normal people. There would be 10 000 times more food for hungry people. Meat, fish and dairy is risky for the environment, suicide and ... murder, actually.
3. There are a lot of ethical issues with this type of farming system. Yes we need I get more efficient to feed the worlds growing population, but this is not nesseserily the best option. As side from the fact that the animals are confined their whole lives and the ethical issues that raises about the indevidual animals quality if life, there is also a serious problem with the high demand for meat and dairy. I'm an omnivore, as we all are, but that doesn't mean that we should be consuming this amount of animal products. It's not healthy for a start, it causes environmental problems and ethical ones for the animals themselves. Another issue is that the worlds growing population is mainly from the developing countries, not from the developed where most Western countries have aging populations because of birth control, women's education and better health care so we shouldn't even need this kind of mega farming in the developed nations. The worlds growing population should be curbed, instead of accomodated, by providing free birth control, education for women and better health care in the developing nations like we have in the West. People should also focus their diet more on plants and less on animal products to lessen the demand and reduce dietary related diseases which we are seeing today on an epidemic scale . Have less kids and eat more plants should be a world wide general rule. It's better for the environment, better for your health and better for the animals.
4. When life treats life wrong to serve none really
5. This is the way obese Americans are fed. You happy?
6. I love the way dairy cows eat 3:53
7. what does intensive agriculture mean can anyone explain In a simple language
8. Wow I'm sorry I didn't know humans need to suck on their mothers TITS to get milk until the day they die, OH that's right they don't they suck on an animals TIT instead..... It's time to grow up people the fairy tale is over you don't need milk when you move to solids.... and for the record lets stick these fat fucking farmers into tiny little cages and once in a while let them stretch their legs to the next fucking cage...... Humans have a choice give up meat and dairy or be culled by the elite because that is what is coming by the richest top 1% the useless eaters of this planet are about to be culled because you are destroying it for the Elites families....
9. Did you not see how the guy that Adam Henson is interviewing at 7:17 didn't have a proper answer for Adam's question. Look, if you don't know how to take care of pigs properly, then I suggest to change your ways and farm the pigs using organic agriculture. You wouldn't even have to do as much work as you do now because you just have to make them free range. Moreover, if you said yourself that pigs aren't humans, then how do YOU know that the pigs are very comfortable and contented with where they are? What if someone put some sellotape over your mouth, stuck you in a cramped cage and spent most of their time thinking that you were happy with where you were? Would you like it? No, so then why do you think that the pigs and even the cows like it? This is NOT an effective way to feed the world so I don't know what you are talking about AND pigs aren't the only good source of protein, there are animals called fish in the world which are excellent sources of protein, so if you catch a few fish and sell them, you could make a better profit than you are now, but I doubt you will.
10. Cows have to be pregnant in order to give milk. There is no mention of the thousands of calves that are taken from their mothers within 24 hours of birth so the milk can be taken away and sold for human consumption. Boy calves are sold off as veal and slaughtered at the age of 3 months. Girl calves get to step into the stall of their mother or another "spent cow" -- as factory farmed dairy cows rarely live beyond 3 - 5 years. In nature, cows live 18 25 years. Factory farm dairy cows are forced to have an abnormal number of calves (by way of artificial insemination) and their bodies are manipulated to provide 10x the normal amount of milk. They cannot eat enough hay to maintain their bodies. At age 3 - 5, therefore, they practically fall apart and are shipped off for slaughter. Once that cow is on the transport carrier for the slaughterhouse, the dairy doesn't care one wit. If they survive the transport, the slaughter is vicious beyond all measure - especially so for those cows who are "downers." All dairy is murder. Let them find a different way to make a living or -- may they rot in hell.
11. We do not give this food to the hungry. I bet half this milk gets wasted. I think they mean well, they do recycle the cow manure, but this does affect the environment.
12. Ewwww! No place for cows to walk !
13. If the pigs,sheep,cows and all the other animals that we ate had more freedom and were treated more humane in a more realistic 'natural' environment where they would be able to stretch their legs and see the daylight, this problem wouldn't have such controversy. Yes we need food but No we do not need to breed so many cattle that over 50% of it is wasted. When was the last time you went to the supermarket and looked at the amount of food wasted. - It doesn't even get given to the less fortunate. Vegetarian or not I am 100% certain that we would all be more content with our meals if we knew that the animal we killed, gave our life for us, had had even just a fraction of a more favorable life, that we could have peace of mind of what's on our plate and how it got there!
14. da faq
15. Good and bad sides
16. Animal cruelty.. No doubt about it... If the owner is so concerned about how much food he needs to produce, he should use that space to grow vegetables instead, make what food people really need to eat
17. poor pigs this is terrible
18. PEOPEL ARE FATT , AND ITING TO MUCH
19. Vegan M You really need to do your Homework the Human digestive system was and is a carnival and Vegetable one, cows will shit even if we don't use them for food production. You have chosen your life and eating style habits stop forcing others to think like you with boring facts. Fact old Hippy Loving VW Beetles and Camper vans Produce More Co2 and Hydrocarbons than a modern Porsche or Range Rover yet you Vegan , Veggie loving echo bunnies drive them! Get a life sunshine!
20. cows worldwide produce 130 billion pounds of manure a day.  That is the #1 source of water pollution and ocean dead zones.