The number of department-defined (restricted) feedlots – whereby stock moved only to slaughter – has increased sixfold across the country over the last…
A total of 315,722 cattle that originated from ‘factory feedlots’ were slaughtered at Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) approved beef…
The former president of the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA), Eddie Downey, recently dismissed calls for feedlots to be banned in Ireland. Speaking at…