May 7th, 2020 Animal Welfare, COVID-19 Farming Impact, Food Sovereignty, Rooting for Real Farms Farm Expert Interview 1: John Mettrick Share: John Mettrick is a small scale Peak District abattoir owner, who slaughters, processes and delivers all his meat in-house. He spoke about the need for a network of numerous small scale, local abattoirs in the UK as one of the essential pillars in a resilient, sustainable and high welfare food system. He says, ‘if one had COVID in a small plant, you would lose one small plant, the others could pick up the slack. Whilst in situations where you have massive plants the whole system goes down’. More Case Studies Share This Article Related ArticlesView all September 11th, 2020 0 Anaerobic Digesters Facilitating UK Factory Farm Expansion Malcolm McAllister, CEO of Farm Renewables UK, paints a rosy picture of the anaerobic digester (AD) plants which his company… Read More Animal Welfare, Environmental Impacts, Human health September 4th, 2020 1 Is Red Tractor High Welfare? When it comes to buying pork, the Red Tractor label does not offer any assurance that the pigs were raised… Read More Animal Welfare, Ethical Pork, Understanding Labelling August 27th, 2020 0 Cruel Farmers or a Cruel System? The horror story experienced by US pig farmers who, between May and September, will have cruelly euthanized 10 million pigs,… Read More Animal Welfare, Newsletter August 27th, 2020 0 Farm Case Study 20: Tullich Highland Rare Breed Pigs, Invergordon Tullich Highland Rare Breeds Farm to the far north of the Scottish Highlands in Invergordon, breed Oxford Sandy Blacks and… Read More COVID-19 Farming Impact, Rooting for Real Farms August 20th, 2020 0 Case Study 19: BigBarn Anthony Davison is a 5th generation farmer who set up BigBarn after supermarkets sold his onions for 8X the price… Read More COVID-19 Farming Impact, Rooting for Real Farms August 13th, 2020 0 Farm Case Study 18: Sanctuary Farm, East Sussex Deborah from Sanctuary Farm rears Oxford Sandy & Blacks. When COVID hit, they were busy delivering weaners and worried about… Read More COVID-19 Farming Impact, Rooting for Real Farms Leave a Comment Cancel replyYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Name * Email * Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Comment