Several British celebrities have spoken out about a plan to bring factory dairy farms to Britain, including vegetarians Leona Lewis and Chrissie Hynde.

The World Society for the Protection of Animals has launched a campaign, “Not In My Cuppa,” educating British people on the effects of large-scale dairy farms on animals and the environment and asking them to state they would not drink milk from battery cows.

The plan to bring Nocton Dairy to Britain is one of the first in the UK, according to the WSPA. And almost half of the British surveyed said milk made them think of cows grazing in green pastures and 61% said they’d never buy milk produced from such a large farm.

Here’s what the plan could mean in terms of animal welfare and the environment:

Animals:

Lameness: A condition more common for cows kept indoors and for Holstein cows, the type of cows usually chosen for factory farming.

Mastitis: A painful infection in the cow’s udder, likely to occur more often when cows are farmed in settings where they’re required to produce intense volumes of milk.

Environment:

WSPA states that the manure disposal system used by Nocton uses enough electricity to power 2,000 homes. And while dairy farming is a water-gulping industry itself, WSPA states that in intensive farming, cows only get 10% of their fluid from feed vs. 25% from extensive farming.

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