Victory! Norfolk Chicken and Pig Mega-Farms Axed After PETA Push
3rd April 2025
Victory! Norfolk Chicken and Pig Mega-Farms Axed After PETA Push
Norfolk – Following a PETA appeal – signed by over 40,000 concerned residents and members of the public – the Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk has rejected plans for the development of two intensive mega-farms in Norfolk. The compassionate decision will spare around 48,000 pigs and 6.7 million birds a year from a life of misery and a terrifying death.
“Thanks to the thousands of kind people who spoke up for chickens and pigs, the council has chosen to do right by animals, the environment, and the community,” says PETA Senior Campaigns Manager Kate Werner. “Intensive farming is a death sentence for animals and wreaks havoc with the planet, and we hope all councils will choose kindness by blocking any future applications for these destructive farms.”
PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” – stresses that animals on farms are crammed into squalid, severely crowded sheds and deprived of everything that is natural and important to them. At the abattoir, many are killed painfully, sometimes without being properly stunned. In addition to tarnishing the community’s reputation, these large-scale operations could have adverse effects on the surrounding countryside – they could pollute local water sources, and the high levels of noise and traffic they would generate would undoubtedly disturb residents. On a global scale, factory farming is among the leading contributors to the greenhouse gas emissions causing the climate catastrophe.
PETA further notes that cramming stressed animals together on faeces-ridden farms, transporting them in packed lorries, and slaughtering them on killing floors soaked with blood, urine, and other bodily fluids encourages deadly pathogens to emerge that can mutate and spread from animals to humans.
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