Alison Caffyn

Rural researcher: landscapes and land use, tourism, rivers, intensive livestock farming, chickens.

[Alison Caffyn @alisoncaffyn]

Busy River Teme at Ludlow as I collected water samples for @sascampaigns @WATERSHED_i @AlistairBoxall #swimmingriversstudy2024
How clean are inland bathing waters?
@RiverActionUK @severnrivers

[Alison Caffyn @alisoncaffyn]

I'm helping with a new river bathing water quality testing project this week.

[Jenny Jones @GreenJennyJones]

I did ask what the @NFUtweets advised farmers to do about the vast amounts of waste from 25m chickens which heavily pollutes the once beautiful #River #Wye.
They had ideas about dealing with it . I'm sure @EllieChowns a local MP, will be interested to hear those ideas!

[watershed_investigations @WATERSHED_i]

The Lough is encircled by a ring of intensive poultry farms & anaerobic digesters. That's a lot of chicken poop releasing a lot of phosphates to feed a lot of algae to suffocate a lot of wildlife.

https://t.co/58bcdV0bBc

[Dr Ellie Chowns MP @EllieChowns]

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[Alison Caffyn @alisoncaffyn]

Legal action vindicated!

[RiverActionUK @RiverActionUK]

📢 ANNOUNCEMENT: ⬇️

A judge has ruled that farming practices will have to change in response to a legal challenge by @RiverActionUK over the @EnvAgency's alleged failure to enforce regulations to protect the River Wye from pollution. 1/3 🧵

👉 https://t.co/LPGjSPJr8l

[Alison Caffyn @alisoncaffyn]

More solutions like this please.

[Merry Albright @MerryAlbright]

Site of 4 intensive poultry units (by a brook) now transformed into 4 sustainable, bespoke homes. Plus trees, hedges, deep verges, SUDs, orchard, wildlife set asides etc & gardens/veg beds
Planning policy needs to be radically rethought to enable more rural brownfield options.

[Alison Caffyn @alisoncaffyn]

I'll have to dig out this graph every time someone says dirty rivers are all the water companies fault. In this part of the country - Wye and Severn there are vastly more chickens than people.

[Leigh Day @LeighDay_Law]

Industrial chicken farmers, Avara, produce 160k tonnes of manure annually in the Wye catchment - over 10x more than the Wye population's sewage. Join the claim to hold Avara accountable for the damage to the rivers. Find out more: https://t.co/U7N9rcUd3z

#riverwye #savethewye

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Farmers union objects to new bathing water designations."

Oh, now that is interesting. The @NFUtweets objected to every application for bathing water, care to explain NFU?

Guardians of the countryside?

Great bit of reporting by @ShoshaAdie 👏👏👏

https://t.co/H9Ut25TxRU

[Alison Caffyn @alisoncaffyn]

Really useful report mapping UK factory farm hotspots. And great set of recommendations.

[Sustain @UKSustain]

River Pollution: 10 factory farm corporations produce more excrement than the UK’s 10 largest cities.

Find more here ➡️ https://t.co/FKWbl04PAT

[Alison Caffyn @alisoncaffyn]

Ooooh - now we're talking.

[Leigh Day @LeighDay_Law]

A legal claim potentially worth hundreds of millions to compensate thousands of people for pollution in the River Wye and its tributaries has been extended to include US multi national food producer Cargill Plc. The claim is lead by @ollyholland https://t.co/fkEQvXWxTV

[The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @TBIJ]

Farm waste is often used as fertiliser but can wash into rivers and cause pollution

A new report by @UKSustain and @friends_earth shows that top intensive meat and dairy firms are producing over 2,800 double-decker busloads of waste a day – but not all gets disposed correctly

[Alison Caffyn @alisoncaffyn]

So pleased people looking into the air pollution impacts from intensive poultry, as well as river pollution. 👏

[Lucie Heath @luciemheath]

US-style chicken ‘mega-farms’ run by firms that supply meat to McDonald’s, Nando’s, Tesco and M&S are causing surges in emissions of a potentially deadly gas

My investigation with @TBIJ @andrew_wasley

https://t.co/4rTegYaOia

[RiverActionUK @RiverActionUK]

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[Alison Caffyn @alisoncaffyn]

The results of lax regulation for the last decade or so.

[Helena Horton @horton_official]

Most UK dairy farms ignoring pollution rules as manure spews into rivers https://t.co/uZbV2z4KcC

[RiverActionUK @RiverActionUK]

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[Helena Horton @horton_official]

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[Alison Caffyn @alisoncaffyn]

@MerryAlbright @suepritch @leanahosea @anthea_mcintyre Sounds like a great idea. Citizen science has brought the whole situation to light and needs to play a continuing role to ensure accountability.

[Alison Caffyn @alisoncaffyn]

Yep.
Why not spend some of funding on supporting some farmers to transition OUT of chickens, not lock in to industrial farming model with questionable incinerators and AD.

[Friends of the River Wye @FriendsUpperWye]

The plan in brief:

✅ River Buffers
❌ Only covers England, not Wales
❌ No mention of enforcement action against polluters
❌ No plan to reduce livestock numbers
❌ Promotes more AD plants, which could lead to more maize & soil damage