Articles by Andrew Wasley and Madlen Davies

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The Rise of the “Megafarm”: How British Meat Is Made
Andrew Wasley and Madlen Davies – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 24 Jul 2017

17 Jul 2017 – Intensive livestock farms have grown by a quarter in the last six years. The biggest farms house more than a million chickens, 20,000 pigs or 2,000 cows at any one time. Behind the data lies the need for a fundamental debate about what we want to eat as a nation, and what price we are prepared to pay for that food.

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Drug Resistance: How Dirty Production of UK National Health Service Drugs Helps Create Superbugs
Andrew Wasley and Madlen Davies – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 24 Oct 2016

18 Oct 2016 – The NHS is buying drugs from pharmaceutical companies in India whose dirty production methods are fuelling the rise of superbugs, and there are no checks or regulations in place to stop this happening. The growth in superbugs – infections which are resistant to antibiotics – is one of the biggest public health crises facing the world today, and pollution in drug companies’ supply chains is one of its causes.

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