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Their waste is one big dirty problem. we went to a stretch of the frome in somerset. over the last six years, two big leaks of waste from a dairy farm upstream killed around 2,000 fish here. sue everett, who lives nearby, showed us the evidence she filmed. the first thing was the smell. it was appalling. and, as i approached the river, i could see that it was black. how did you feel when you were filming this? sick. sick because i know it had happened before, not that long ago in the same place from the same farm. the farmer responsible was prosecuted for both leaks and ordered to pay tens of ...

Was prosecuted for both leaks and ordered to pay tens of thousands of pounds. do you think people are aware that this is a problem? no, i think farm pollution has been hidden away for far too long. it's the unseen contamination, though, that really worries conservationists — the creeping decline of life. this is a river that's really suffered, and half of all pollution caused by agriculture is down to the industry that gives us billions of pints of milk a year. while supplying that industry, each dairy cow produces up to 53 litres of manure a day. so all the cows in the uk produce more than ...

Tyson Foods influences farming practices on nearly 10 million acres of cropland—an area roughly twice the size of New Jersey.