The campaigners against the Nocton Dairy have advanced their cause by getting an Early Day Motion (EDM) filed.

Thirty one MPs have signed the EDM filed on Tuesday, congratulating the “unprecedented collaboration” of the groups involved. However, the EDM does not call for a ban on industrial scale dairies but only that the government reviews the welfare codes in line with this change in scale of production.

The Early Day Motion.

That this House welcomes campaigns such as Not In My Cuppa and Cows Belong In Fields to oppose the establishment of intensive dairy units such as that proposed by Nocton Dairies Ltd in Lincolnshire; congratulates the unprecedented collaboration of groups such as the World Society for the Protection of Animals, Compassion in World Farming, the Campaign to Protect Rural England, Friends of the Earth and the Soil Association to work together to oppose such proposals; believes such proposals threaten to take British dairy farming in the wrong direction; acknowledges the latest MORI poll which shows a majority of the British public do not want to drink factory milk from battery cows; and calls on the Government urgently to review their welfare code for cows to ensure such industrial-sized dairies are not approved in the absence of welfare regulations that take into account such an unprecedented change in the way cows are farmed in the UK.

Suzi Morris, UK director for the World Society For The Protection Of Animals, said: "It is fantastic this Early Day Motion has gone through.

"This shows the intensification threat to our dairy industry is an issue which concerns not only local communities near these proposed industrial sites such as the Nocton Dairy application, but all parliamentarians regardless of constituency or political party."