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A vegan campaign called Project Calf is actively encouraging people in the UK to enter dairy farms and film farm activity to expose what they call “the horrific reality behind dairy”.
The campaign has created a map of dairy farms across England and Wales and provides people with legal advice on how to enter farms to film.
Registered dairy farms
The map lists the location of 9,338 farms using information from the Food Standards Agency list of registered dairy farms.
They advise people to use public footpaths that run through farms and inform people that they do not have to provide farmers with identification or delete any footage they’ve filmed unless presented with a court order.
Filming
“Many farms have public footpaths running through them which allow us to carry this out and remain completely within the law,” the campaign says.
“There is no law prohibiting filming or taking photographs on private property, however, a landowner can ask you to stop doing something on their land and have you removed if you don’t comply.”
They claim that up to 24 male calves are killed on farms every hour and believe that they are promoting citizen journalism.
Military veganism
The presence of militantly-minded vegan activists in the UK has become an increasing concern for many farmers, with many feeling helpless to defend people trespassing on their lands.
Project Calf also follows on from the #Veganuary social media campaign and the EAT-Lancet report which heavily criticised modern farming.
The barrage of anti-farm feeling has been taken on by the #Februdairy campaign, which aims to promote farming in a positive light on social media for the month of February.
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