Petra van Cronenburg<p>1/2 "American-style intensive <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/livestock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>livestock</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/farms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>farms</span></a> are spreading across <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a>, with new data revealing more than 24,000 megafarms across the continent ... The rise in intensive farming has coincided with a decline in birds, tree species and butterfly numbers ... and pollution <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/12/research-reveals-24000-megafarms-across-europe" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">25/jun/12/research-reveals-24000-megafarms-across-europe</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/industrialFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>industrialFarming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/intensiveFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intensiveFarming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/IntensiveLandwirtschaft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IntensiveLandwirtschaft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/livestock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>livestock</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/megaFarms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>megaFarms</span></a></p>