Glastonbury organizer Michael 'Eavis defended the call

Welsh and UK farming unions in Wales today to ban Chinese lantern festival Glastonbury organizer Michael 'Eavis defended the call.

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Lanterns, fireworks, often seen as a gentler alternative is already banned in Germany and Australia.

Mr Eavis said they pose threats to crops and livestock and flying lanterns, tents during the festival, is worried about.

He said: “I would like to see them totally banned.

“I am surrounded by farmers and when Glastonbury Festival takes place, it’s sky lanterns they get angry about. For several years now we have banned them being sold at the festival, but people still bring them on site within all their camping gear.

“It’s an absolute disaster when they let them off, if they were ever to land on a tent they could start a fire that would set off a domino effect, as the tents are pitched so close together at the festival.”

Normally a string of lanterns on the frame are constructed of paper increased. A wax candle which they fly for 20 minutes and he can climb a mile in the sky before they disintegrate that enables contains.

Mr Eavis said, “They are also a real danger to both cattle and sheep as the metal frames fall down into long grass and end up being cut into small sharp needle-like sections by the forage machinery, when making hay and silage for the winter fodder”.

FUW’s new president Emyr Jones said: “Consumers are always talking about maintaining the welfare of livestock and then they let these things go up and, inevitably, they come back down on to our farmland.”