Campaign update

Intensively farmed pigs have little space to move. © Pig Business directed by Tracy Worcester, www.pigbusiness.co.uk

We are supporting the campaign because:

• We believe that food should be sustainably produced to high environmental and animal welfare standards;

• We believe consumers should be encouraged to support local producers who are often important for maintaining local food networks.

Watch the video

The Pig Business documentary highlights:

• The lower quality of meat produced by intensive factory farming.
• How the loss of family farms has endangered the uniquely unspoilt Polish countryside.
• Intensive farm practices which have the potential to put human health at risk
• Poor conditions and welfare causing pigs to become sick and injured
• Workers at factory farms complaining of significant health problems
• Pollution arising from the run-off from fields entering waterways, resulting in contamination of water supplies and the loss of aquatic wildlife
  

> Pig Business website: video

The intensive farming of pigs
The documentary has taken four years of research and explores the true costs of intensively farmed pork. Investigating some Polish farms, it examines how the globalised nature of the food industry can have serious consequences for the quality of the countryside, animal welfare standards, human health and independent farm livelihoods.

British farmers livelihoods at risk
Tracy Worcester, who made the documentary, argues that independent UK pig farmers could be threatened from imports of intensively reared pork products and that current labeling prevents consumers making informed choices. The documentary seeks to raise awareness of the environmental issues behind intensive pig production. It also makes the case for consumers to buy local produce. This would help to shift money from large multinational food corporations to local rural communities.