Entrance to Broadland Poultry Limited

Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 29 Jul 2014

The concreted access road gives this location away as having been one of the former dispersed campsites associated with RAF Deopham Green. This was the location of Site 7, an Accommodation site. The small white building seen in the background is one of the original buildings that have survived here. The site is currently occupied by Broadland Poultry, one of the poultry farms belonging to Banham Poultry Ltd. The company made headlines when disturbing scenes of suffering and abuse on eight of their farms were filmed and the films made public several years ago. They received further media attention when it could be shown that chickens supplied to supermarkets and stores had suffered from hock burns and chest blisters, lesions sustained when chickens are forced to put on as much weight as possible in the shortest possible time. With the legs unable to support their bodies, many are reduced to dragging themselves around to reach food and water and have no choice but to crouch on filthy, ammonium-soaked floors. The most recent news report noxious smells emanating from the company's Attleborough plant where the chickens are slaughtered and processed. Banham Poultry Ltd have been in the poultry business for 45 years and the company currently sells about 650,000 chickens per week.

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