Several other farmers are keen to take slurry to spread on their own fields, and ways to deal with worries over water pollution are being squared with the EA. As for animal welfare, Peter Willes, one of the dairies' co-owners, points out that it is in his own economic interests to keep his animals happy and productive.

ECONOMIST: Industrial dairy farming

Sleep was good, too: animals nearly always have happy dreams.

NEWYORKER: Among Animals and Plants

Since transgenic goats, for example, are living factories whose worth depends on their producing as much milk as possible, every measure is taken to keep them happy, healthy, well fed and sequestered from non-transgenic animals.

ECONOMIST: REPORTS

But he told the court many visitors were not happy with the promised snow-covered log cabins, a nativity scene, husky dogs, polar bears and other animals, as well as a bustling Christmas market.

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