1. Intensive farming is depleting soils.

2. Intensive farming has brought about an increase in outbreaks of food poisoning.

3. Intensive farming in the area has caused severe degeneration of the land.

4. 22 Intensive farming has brought about an increase in outbreaks of food poisoning.

5. The land is severely eroded as a result of widespread deforestation and intensive farming.

6. The soil has been so heavily leached through intensive farming that it is no longer fertile.

7. Our increase in intensive farming has brought with it an increase in outbreaks of food poisoning.

8. In addition to spray drift, intensive farming has a destructive effect on the surrounding fauna and flora.

9. Opponents of intensive farming argue that it harms the environment, creates human health risks and is inhumane.

10. 8 For a start, subsidies themselves encourage over-intensive farming by making it economic to farm marginal land.

11. 13 In addition to spray drift, intensive farming has a destructive effect on the surrounding fauna and flora.

12. The 65-percent drop in sparrow populations in rural areas is understood to be largely on account of intensive farming.

13. Croziers Turkeys are non-intensively farmed so disease risks are lower and there are no welfare issues common to intensive farming practises