原文：https://globalvegancrowdfunder.org/chicken-unit-blocked/
注：译文谨供参考。
Chicken Unit Blocked
阻建养鸡场
March 7, 2022
2022年3月7日
On the 18th February 2022, the VLM managed to collectively buy out another parcel of animal agriculture grazing land with our stealth campaign. This was a hard campaign because we had to keep all the details a secret.
纯素土地运动（VLM）通过采取秘密行动，在2022年2月18日集体收购了又一块动物农业牧地。这是一次困难的行动，因为我们不得不对所有细节保密。
We did not intend to go for another plot so soon, but when this came on to our radar, we felt we had no choice, because there was something incredibly important to prevent, attached to this plot of land. It came with PLANNING PERMISSION for a CHICKEN UNIT! We found out from the estate agents that there were two chicken farmers interested – one had already submitted an offer and the other wanted to extend the planning permission to house even more birds. The planning permission was for 2,500 chickens. This equates to approximately 20,000 chickens a year, based on a 6.5 week turn around. So, it was not a big unit, but as many of you know when these units are built, they often end up becoming larger over time.
我们原本是不打算这么快再买一块地的，但是当那块地进入我们视线的时候，我们觉得我们别无选择了，因为阻止那块地牵涉到的事情显得极其紧要。那块地配有养鸡场的规划许可！我们从地产代理人那里了解到，当时已有两家养鸡户对那块地感兴趣──其中一家已经提出了报价，而另一家还想扩大规划许可，以便圈养更多的禽类动物。现有的规划许可允许圈养2,500只鸡。按6.5周的周转时间来计算，每年大约能够养殖20,000只鸡。所以，这还不是一个很大的养鸡场；可是你们很多人都知道的，这类养鸡场一旦建成之后，最终往往都会变得越来越大。
Here are parts of the Planning Permission we can share (click to enlarge):
这里是可以透露的一部分规划许可的内容（点击查看大图）：
Chicken is the UK’s most popular animal flesh, ‘with 20 million birds slaughtered every week in the UK. The vast majority (86%) of industrial-sized farms are in the poultry sector, with 1,534 industrial-sized farms’.
鸡肉是英国食用最多的动物肉，“英国每个星期屠宰的禽类动物高达2000万只。（2020年）本国内有1,534家工业规模农场（大型密集养殖场）都是属于禽类行业的，占据了所有工业规模农场（1,786家）的绝大部分（86%）”。（译注：其余的252家为养猪场。其它的密集型养牛场等，据说不需要环境局颁发运营许可，故此还没法统计到具体的数目。）
Factory farms are responsible for the growing threat of bird flu, a disease which has a 50% mortality rate in humans when infected and has been spreading across the UK. Factory farming is a breeding ground for new pandemics, animal cruelty and environmental destruction.
工厂化农场（factory farms）造成禽流感的威胁越来越大，这种疾病已经传播到英国各地，人被感染后的死亡率高达50%。工厂化养殖业（factory farming）不仅是滋生新的大流行病（pandemic）的温床，而且还是虐待动物和破坏环境的元凶。
The huge amounts of faecal waste produced by chicken farming, together with feathers, bedding and dead chickens, are difficult to manage in landfills or as compost. Storage of waste or overfertilization of land with chicken manure can cause runoff into rivers, lakes and ponds. Manure contains phosphorus and nitrogen, and runoff that carries these nutrients causes algae blooms in fresh water. Algae blooms reduce sunlight penetration in water, cutting the oxygen supply to underwater plants, a condition known as eutrophication. This leads to the death of fish. Heavy metals and pathogenic microbes in chicken waste also harm and cause disease in land wildlife.
养鸡业产生了混有羽毛、垫料和死鸡的大量排泄废物；垃圾填埋场很难处理这些废物或者将其用作堆肥。存储废物或者用鸡粪对土地过度施肥，都可能造成径流进入河流、湖泊和池塘。粪肥含有磷和氮，而携带这些养分的径流会导致淡水环境中的藻类爆发。藻类爆发减少阳光在水中的透射，降低了对水下植物的供氧量──这种情况被称为水体富营养化（eutrophication）。因此，导致了鱼类的死亡。鸡粪中的重金属和病原微生物也对陆地野生生物造成伤害和引发疾病。
The VLM have not only blocked this chicken unit from being built, but we have also prevented the subsequent pollution that would have had a big impact on the local biodiversity causing many adverse effects. This land is near a river that is already suffering the consequences of animal waste runoff and a unit like this would have been devastating for the already struggling wildlife in this area.
纯素土地运动不仅阻止了这个养鸡场的建成，而且我们还防止了后面的污染；这些污染势必严重危害当地的生物多样性并带来许多负面影响。那块土地附近就有一条河，已经遭受了动物废物径流的后果；本地区的野生生物已然处境艰难，若出现这样的养鸡场对它们无疑是雪上加霜。
We would like to say thank you to all of those who donated towards saving this land as well as the lives of the 20,000 chickens who would have suffered there. Whether you donated ￡1, ￡10,000 or everything in between, you helped make this happen. This land, like the other two parcels of land bought by the VLM, will never be used to harm sentient life again and will also become a safe place for the critically endangered species who can now make it their home.
为了拯救那块土地以及在那里受苦受难的20,000只鸡的生命，我们要对所有捐款人说声“谢谢你”。无论你捐款1英镑、10,000英镑或者其中的任意金额，都是在帮助实现上述目的。与纯素土地运动购买的另外两块地一样，那块土地也永远不会再用于伤害有知觉的生命，而是将变成极危物种的安居之地，现在就可以成为它们的家园。
The future for the land now looks bright. We are in communication with some wonderful people local to the area, regarding creating a veganic community mixed orchard on part of the land, that will be free for local people to harvest fruit. I’m sure you will agree that this is a much more compassionate, positive, and sustainable use of the land for growing food, than either dairy or poultry farming.
现在看来那块土地的前途一片光明。我们在联系当地的一些有识之士，考虑用其中一部分地建立一个纯素有机的社群混合果园，将来可以让当地人来这里免费采摘水果。我肯定你们也会赞同以下观点：更加慈悲、积极和可持续地利用土地就是种植食物，而不是养殖奶牛或家禽。
The idea of Vegan Land Movement CIC is to become a large Movement and is about us all uniting as a community to work together in buying more plots of animal agriculture land. If the VLM grows and enough people subscribe every month, this would enable us as a global community to buy similar plots much more frequently. This would make a real difference to critically endangered wildlife, help to mitigate against climate breakdown and of course end the exploitation of animals farmed on these parcels of land.
“纯素土地运动”社区利益公司（VLM CIC）的理想是发展成一个大型的运动组织，让我们所有人联合起来成为一个群体，共同努力收购更多的动物农业土地。纯素土地运动不断发展壮大，而且每个月都有足够多的人解囊相助，我们就能够发展成为一个全球社群，更加频繁地购买类似的地块。这样就可以真正造福极危的野生生物，帮助阻止气候崩溃（climate breakdown），当然也杜绝在这些土地上养殖和剥削动物。
Will you be a part of making this difference? Please join the Vegan Land Movement.
您愿意促成这样的改变吗？请加入纯素土地运动。
You can subscribe from as little as ￡5 a month to help remove land from cruel farming practices, save species, biodiversity and the earth.
您可以每月捐款低至5英镑，帮助撤除残酷养殖业占用的土地，拯救物种、生物多样性和地球。
If you would like to contact the VLM, please drop us a line.
如果您想联系纯素土地运动（VLM），请给我们写封短信。
