In Canada, we have found that as farm size increases, so does the probability of injury. Commercial farms are less safe, not more safe. If you think corporations care more about worker safety than farmers care about their family members safety... good luck to you. publications.gc.ca/Collection/S...

The huge, commercial farm near us stripped out bluebell woods, destroyed wildlife in unfarmable land & regularly does things which negatively impacts village residents & the local area. The small, local farmers are much more responsible, actively maintaining/helping to improve the local environment.

I have a small holding. A neighbouring farmer, is a force for sustainability and farming to preserve the natural environment. A real innovator. He is currently at an agricultural conference in Africa passing on his knowledge local farmers. Corporate farming is destroying environments for profit.

Such a constructive comment clearly based on ignorance.

it was actually a friend who is a farmer who had spoken to me about this previously. there are good farmers and bad farmers but he felt corporate farms would address safety better. Younger farmers certainly should be trained to understand risk, mitigations, and be punished.

A lot of farms are already commercialised. Bought up by offshore consortiums. They don’t give a shit about H&S. Just profit. They stick in young farmers with little experience to run them, cram the fields with more cows than they can hold, take the subsidies and pocket the cash.

"Get rid of..." Interesting phrase. How?

Supermarket farmwashing, our unrealistic desire for cheap food, the fact we pay more for bottled water than a pint of milk, the supermarket stranglehold on farmers and at a whim can refuse their produce are the issues to be addressed. Give farmers a decent livelihood & they have time for safety.

Many commercial enterprises have little regard to environmental safety e.g.water industry & push HSE regulation to limit Many family farms have a very healthy regard for improving nature. Commercial farms seem to prefer profit. The solution is pay farmers a decent rate for food so can employ more