A RECENT report in the Daily Telegraph quotes Prof Tim Lang who advises the government on food policy as saying it was a “national disgrace” that 73% of supermarket chickens were infected with campylobacter.
The bacterium causes vomiting and diarrhoea in around 280,000 healthy people every year.
These chickens are produced by industrial units at the rate of 40,000 per unit every six weeks and then they are gassed.
Herefordshire Council has agreed every planning application in the county and is about to consider a further application for 80,000 chickens in the Golden Valley near Dorstone.
A majority of local people are against the application but, in the past, have been ignored. As the headline of the Telegraph report states: “The chicken bug is out of control.”
Surely for the sake of everyone in the Hereford area, this planning application should be rejected until the campylobacter bug is more under control and the health of the public safeguarded.
A JONES Dorstone
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