I would +1 to all of the above (and probably in stronger terms!).
Additionally, from yet unpublished research we’ve done in the UK and also talking to people who work on food policy in the UK government, the number one thing people care about for food right now is cost. So the odds of getting any kind of significant progress to block loads of factory farm expansions and/or close existing ones, which will both increase the cost of food, will be extremely small. For example, Labour’s current plan is the weaken planning regulations to allow more chicken sheds to be built (to reduce the cost of food) so for them to do a full U-turn would be a miracle, in my opinion.
I also think these battles will be in a relatively small number of rural constituencies, with relatively small populations, so I don’t expect there to be any major impacts on national public opinion. And as Thom says, most people already say they agree with us, despite paying for lots of factory-farmed meat. So I’m unsure if trying to change the number of people who say they don’t want factory-farmed products in the UK is even a useful goal (but I also don’t know what a better metric might be).
I would +1 to all of the above (and probably in stronger terms!).
Additionally, from yet unpublished research we’ve done in the UK and also talking to people who work on food policy in the UK government, the number one thing people care about for food right now is cost. So the odds of getting any kind of significant progress to block loads of factory farm expansions and/or close existing ones, which will both increase the cost of food, will be extremely small. For example, Labour’s current plan is the weaken planning regulations to allow more chicken sheds to be built (to reduce the cost of food) so for them to do a full U-turn would be a miracle, in my opinion.
I also think these battles will be in a relatively small number of rural constituencies, with relatively small populations, so I don’t expect there to be any major impacts on national public opinion. And as Thom says, most people already say they agree with us, despite paying for lots of factory-farmed meat. So I’m unsure if trying to change the number of people who say they don’t want factory-farmed products in the UK is even a useful goal (but I also don’t know what a better metric might be).