Industrial chicken farming is framed as an adversarial force contributing to environmental degradation.
The expansion of industrial chicken farming is directly linked to pollution and ecological harm, with specific companies named in a major legal case, positioning the industry as a key antagonist in the river’s decline.
“Campaigners say excess nutrients from the rapid expansion of industrial chicken farming in the river’s catchment area – aggravated by sewage spills – have caused algae, fungus and weed growth that has suffocated the ecosystem.”
