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Complaints pour in as BBC series Countryfile airs ‘downright abusive’ scenes

Countryfile viewers were left furious last night as a segment on dairy farming, depicting cows living inside, was shown.

Heading to Leicestershire, Adam Henson met the Eggleston family and looked at how they produce milk for the local Stilton cheese dairy. Footage was shown of the 200 cows inside the shed eating grass, getting scratches from a hanging scratcher, and lying on mattresses. “It’s bad enough having battery hens but keeping those poor cows inside for the majority of the year is downright abuse,” one viewer fumed.

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