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Keywords
Agriculture
Air pollution
Factory Farming
Houses
Illness
Indoors
KWCI (GPI)
Local population
Meat
Meat and Dairy (campaign title)
One person
Pigs
Portraits
Sadness
Teachers
Victims
Women
Woman Living near Vandvaerksgaarden Factory Farm, Denmark
Bente Joergensen is a former gymnasium teacher, and here she sits by the window in the house, where she has lived for more than 20 years with her husband, chemical engineer Soeren Hansen. Their house is only 100 meters from the industrial pig farm Vandvaerksgaarden.
Life here has changed, and the once so pleasant surroundings are now dominated by the presence of several pig factory farms.
Bente spends a lot of time sitting in her chair and staring out of the window. She said: “The smell is so awful, that it makes me feel sick, my head aches and my eyes are red and swollen. I feel that our lives are destroyed because of the smell, noise and dust from the farm.”
Unique identifier:
GP0STTCCR
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
13/03/2019
Locations:
Denmark
,
Europe
,
Tingerup
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / Wildlight / Selene Magnolia
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
Containers
Shoot:
Pig Factory Farms in Denmark
Denmark produces more than 31 million pigs annually, which, together with the annual production of 1.5 million cattles, makes up 19 percent of Denmark’s total greenhouse gas emissions. Inside the walls of industrial farms, animals’ existence are reduced to short lives inside small booths or cages. Besides its effect on the climate, meat production in Denmark further has a negative impact on the local environment, landscape, biodiversity and public health.
Greenpeace Nordic in Denmark demands a reduction in the number of pigs and cattles produced by the meat industry in Denmark. The decrease in amount of agricultural land used for production of animal feed should simultaneously give space to more nature, forest and production of organic, plant-based crops. Furthermore, the public system has to contribute to a transition of the consumption of less meat and more green foods.
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