Government plan to relax rules on industrial chicken farms is wrong | Letter

Ruth Tanner says Labour must cap the number of industrial units and put in place the building blocks for nature-friendly farming The government’s intention to relax planning regulations to allow for more industrial chicken units is immensely shortsighted (UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying, 2 April).These proposals would effectively commit the UK to business as usual for chicken production, one of the least resilient and most cruel farming systems we