Thousands Join PETA in Opposing Chicken and Pig Mega-Farms in Norfolk
Thousands Join PETA in Opposing Chicken and Pig Mega-Farms in Norfolk
Feltwell and Methwold, Norfolk – A proposal has been submitted for the development of two intensive mega-farms in Norfolk that would condemn around 48,000 pigs and around 6.7 million birds a year to a life of misery and inevitable slaughter. In response, PETA sent a petition signed by more than 40,000 local residents and other concerned members of the public urging Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk to reject the plan.
“Thousands of compassionate people have spoken, and Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk should heed their concerns over animal welfare, the environment, and the health of the community,” says PETA Senior Campaigns Manager Kate Werner. “PETA is calling for this plan to be scrapped to spare millions of animals a lifetime of suffering and an agonising death.”
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 would likely pollute local water sources, and the high levels of noise and traffic they would generate would undoubtedly disturb local 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. The devastating COVID-19 pandemic arose from confining and killing animals for food.
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