
Residents in East Anglia are warning that their rivers would become as polluted as the River Wye – which has been branded “filthy” – if a farming giant goes ahead with plans for two of the largest megafarms in Europe.
Cranswick, which supplies meat to major supermarkets, wants to set up a pair of intensive farms that together would rear 6.4 million chickens and 56,000 pigs a year.