In July, Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils voted to turn a Suffolk village into an industrial mega machine.

Meat corporation Cranswick was given the green light to build a massive egg incubator to send 169 million chicks to factory farms across East Anglia. 

This factory farm facility has torn apart a community and will transport cruelty across a whole region.

But the story isn’t over. We have submitted a legal challenge against the Council’s decision.

This is our last chance to stop this mega-industrial development before it gets off the ground. Can you chip in to make sure we can fight this legal battle all the way to the High Court?

Trading community for Big Chicken

Intensive chicken production causes extreme pain for animals, for the planet and for people.

Birds trapped inside factory farms barely have enough space to spread their wings. Bred to grow at unnaturally fast speeds, many of these “Frankenchickens” cannot support their own weight. Every chick incubator in Weybread would be destined for a short life of misery in an intensive farm.

We’ve all seen how Big Chicken is turning our rivers green and causing devastating deforestation in the Amazon. At a time when the world is burning from climate change, meat corporations are still trying to expand their empire and cause yet more destruction.

The site where the incubator would be built used to be a pub, a vital community meeting point, with a beautiful garden area and lively folk music events. The Council dismissed alternative plans to re-open the pub as a place for connection and warmth, and alternative proposals for self-build homes. Instead, it approved a cold, heartless mega-incubator that would cause untold harm.

Nobody said it would be easy

Fighting a mega-corporation like Cranswick is hard work. Weybread residents have endured years of strife while raising their voices against corporate greed.

To stop this Suffolk village becoming a breeding ground for all the ills of factory farming, we need your help to challenge this decision all the way to the High Court.

Together, we’re the last line of defence before Cranswick’s unthinkable fantasy becomes a reality.

Legal action works – we’ve already reversed five planning approvals for factory farms.

But we need to do it again. 169 million chicks are counting on us.

Thank you for anything you can spare. 

Every donation goes directly to paying legal costs. Any excess funds not used for this case will go towards other cases fighting factory farming.