1.   A countryside under intensive farming which depends on leisure and service industries is a cosmetic, lifeless countryside.

2.   In addition to spray drift, intensive farming has a destructive effect on the surrounding fauna and flora.

3.   Intensive farming changed the visual appearance of the countryside.

4.   Our increase in intensive farming has brought with it an increase in outbreaks of food poisoning.

5.   The land around here is poor because of years of intensive farming.

6.   The land is severely eroded as a result of widespread deforestation and intensive farming.

7.   The Thatcher government has opposed planning controls over agriculture that could have stopped the spread of intensive arable farming.