Over the past fifty years the British countryside has changed out of all recognition. A wide range of wildlife species are disappearing - victims of modern intensive farming, of pesticides and fertilizers, and the sheer relentless pressure to maximise output from every hedge bank and field corner. It need not have happened. The loss of our wildlife and countryside has come about through a deliberate and sustained national policy, one that costs the British people GBP8 billion a year. THE KILLING OF THE COUNTRYSIDE is a devastating attack on modern British agricultural policy and practice and plea for a return to natural cycles, an end to subsides and the domination of agribusiness and for a safe, sustainable farming system.