UK’s intensive farming hotspots have 79 times more chickens than people, data shows

Despite large poultry units being a key driver of river pollution, their number has soared near the Wye and Severn‘The sores on the fish are nasty’: what’s behind the changes in the Severn river?More than 51 million chickens are being industrially farmed in the river valleys of the Severn and Wye – the equivalent of 79 chickens for every person in the region, according to new figures.The exponential rise in large intensive poultry units (IPUs) in the valleys is a key driv