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0 Comments | Lincolnshire Echo, Mar 20, 2010 | by Paul Whitelam
FORTY MPs have so far lodged their opposition to the proposed 8,100-cow super-dairy near Nocton.
As reported in the Echo, Nocton Dairies Ltd is hoping to have the facility up and running by the end of this year.
More than 250,000 litres of milk would be produced daily at the dairy, set to be built on land to the west of the B1188 at Nocton behind Dunston quarry, and 80-plus jobs would be created.
Carlisle MP and chairman of the Associate Parliamentary Group for Animal Welfare, Eric Martlew, has now raised an early day motion calling for a debate in the House of Commons.
By midday yesterday, 40 MPs had signed the motion that "this House is firmly opposed" to the proposed facility.
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The motion argues that breeding cows for high milk yield is the major factor causing poor welfare and urges retailers and producers of dairy products not to source milk from such large-scale intensive dairy units where cows receive only minimal grazing.
"I think the way this dairy will be stopped is if the big supermarkets say they don't want milk obtained from this sort of process, not because of planning issues," Mr Martlew told the Echo.
Nocton Dairies Ltd is owned by a group of farmers led by Peter Willes, of Parkham Farms Ltd, North Devon, who have 2,000 cows both in Devon and in Clitheroe, Lancashire.
David Barnes manages the herd in Clitheroe and Robert Howard, a farmer in Nocton, is also involved in the project.
Residents of Nocton and surrounding villages are concerned about possible pollution, traffic and environmental damage.
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