We urgently need your help to prevent the construction of another intensive pig farm in Norfolk. Cranswick PLC, one of the leading companies in the UK pig industry, has applied to build a pig fattening farm that will house tens of thousands of pigs raised for slaughter every year. The environmental and ethical impacts of this facility would be devastating for our fellow animals and the local community.

The deadline for objections is Friday, 24 January. Submit your objection here.

Here are some key points for you to include:

• Increased HGV traffic and associated noise and environmental pollution.
• Air pollution through pig waste and vehicles.
• Damage to local SSSI sites, with many throughout Thetford and Breckland.
• Concerns over the disposal of slurry and its environmental implications.
• Implications of being located by a chalk stream river through waste runoff.
• Increased water abstraction from the area.
• Lack of robust mitigation.
• Increase in human health issues from air pollution particles and risk of zoonoses like Swine flu.
• Historical track record of the company of poor environmental and operational practices across their other sites.
• Animal welfare concerns at the vast scale of pigs kept in a small space.

It is disheartening to know that applications like this are still being made, but together, we can stop such atrocities.

As always,

For the animals.