True Stories: Pig Business
More4 - January
Eco-campaigner Tracy Worcester, a former actress and now Marchioness of Worcester, has campaigned for years for quality food, animal welfare and environmental protection through a revitalisation of rural economies. And she believes that people need to become active and aware consumers.
Pig Business is Tracy's four-year investigation into intensive pig farming. She argues that intensive production systems harm human and environmental health, and is pushing traditional farmers out of business.
In the film, part of the Great British Food Fight season, she travels from the UK to the US and Poland to investigate, and meets local people who believe their health has been affected by the new pig production methods, as well as leading politicians and environmental campaigner Robert Kennedy Junior.
Worcester confronts industrial farming executives with her findings and argues that supermarket labelling is not a reliable guide to where pork actually comes from.
Contacts
Press Contact
Justine Bower
jbower@channel4.co.uk
Picture Publicist
Charlie Fearn
cfearn@channel4.co.uk
Production Company
Price of Progress
Commissioning Editor
Tabitha Jackson
Justine Bower
jbower@channel4.co.uk
Picture Publicist
Charlie Fearn
cfearn@channel4.co.uk
Production Company
Price of Progress
Commissioning Editor
Tabitha Jackson