He explained that pigs in intensive units have to be fed anti-biotics to stop disease in close quarters. According to campaigners, around half all antibiotics in the UK are used on farm animals and 60 per cent of those are given to pigs.
He said this is a ?breeding ground? for new anti-biotic resistant strains of diseases like E.coli and salmonella.
?The Foston proposal signals a fundamental shift in British farming towards the US and EU system of giant corporate-owned factories confining thousands of pigs in buildings and feeding them antibiotics to keep them alive,? he said.
?Treating pigs as industrial production units on such an intensive level is not only shameful but also unsustainable. It is the antithesis of what people want the British countryside and farming to be and it poses a potential threat to human health and the environment.?
The Marchioness of Worcester, who made a hard-hitting documentary Pig Business about factory farming of pigs, joined Mr West in the protest against the Foston site.
Having starred in Cats Eyes in the 1980s, Tracey Worcester shares a background in television as well as a passion to improve animal welfare with Mr West.
She said the factory unit also threatens small farmers in the area.
MPP controls 30 farms in eight counties and employs more than 150 people. The 'pig production company' point out there is already a unit in the UK containing 3,500 sows and say the new site would be more clean and efficient, both in terms of hygiene and recycling waste.
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