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COMMENT: Using film to square up to the horrors of factory farming
Tracy Worcester
18th October, 2012
The campaigner behind the groundbreaking Pig Business documentary is now taking her message global, encouraging people to take action against industrial farming methods which degrade the environment and subject animals to a life of miserymore...
The A to Z of smallholdings
Lisa Stephens
8th May, 2012
Take one Alpaca, a scattering of silkworms, a couple of cows and a group of goats, and you could just be the next Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Lisa Stephens presents the A to Z of smallholdings more...
Common infections will be 'untreatable' if antibiotic misuse continues
Tom Levitt
18th November, 2011
Scientists in new warning on post-antibiotic age as campaigners call for stronger controls on excessive use in intensive farming more...
US-style 'mega' Foston pig farm could still be halted says Soil Association
Ecologist
1st November, 2011
Proposals for a large-scale pig farm in Foston, Derbyshire, could herald new era of US-style factory farming in the UK but face concerns from government health officials more...
Sick As A pig – the menace of MRSA linked to industrial pig farming
Another strain of MRSA is emerging from the factory farms of Northern Europe, and it is linked to the insatiable demand for cheap meat on our plates. The Ecologist Film Unit investigates more...
The Illustrated Guide to Pigs: How to Choose Them – How to Keep Them
Mark Newton
11th August, 2011
There's much to love in Celia Lewis’ beautifully illustrated tome, says Mark Newton, but the essential message shouldn’t be forgotten: that this is how all pigs should be treated more...
Brave Old World: A Practical Guide to Husbandry or the Fine Art of Looking After Yourself
Jeremy Williams
4th August, 2011
Tom Hodgkinson's account of life on a smallholding in Devon is spiced with old-fashioned lore and made Jeremy Williams laugh out loud more...
TAKE ACTION: Not in my banger!
Matilda Lee
23rd March, 2011
The battle against the Nocton super-dairy may have been won, but with plans for giant pig factories currently being considered, the Soil Association has launched a major new campaign to combat the latest blight of industrial farming more...
Pig Business: the film the industrial pork lobby tried to silence
The Ecologist
3rd February,2011
Ahead of Pig Business's debut screening at the EU Parliament in Brussels, watch highlights from Tracy Worcester's mammoth investigation into the truth behind cheap pork more...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Tracy Worcester, producer of Pig Business film
Matilda Lee
1st February, 2011
Her shocking film alerted unsuspecting consumers to the hidden costs of factory farmed pork. She talks to the Ecologist ahead of a special screening of Pig Business at the European Parliament more...
Lab grown meat: a low-fat, low-carbon, cruelty-free future?
Matilda Lee
6th April, 2010
The technology isn't fully developed yet, but when meat really can be grown in a lab it's going to turn all our arguments about carnivorous diets on their heads... more...
Label EU pork: 'offspring of a sow in a crate'
Tracy Worcester
26th January, 2010
Simply labelling pig meat products with their country of origin won't change consumer behaviour. Telling people how it was produced just might more...
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Walls sausages reluctant to come clean on origin of pork
Ecologist
26th January, 2010
Owner of Walls, Mattessons and Richmond sausage brands says telling public where meat comes from would 'add cost' and 'jeopardise our brand positioning' more...
Pig MRSA widespread in Europe
The Ecologist
25th November, 2009
Calls for national testing in UK pig herd after survey finds superbug to be prevalent throughout Europe more...
Pig Business: behind the film they tried to ban
Tracy Worcester
20th July, 2009
Tracy Worcester’s ‘Pig Business’, a groundbreaking expose of US industrial pig farming conglomerate Smithfield Foods, has met with repeated attempts at censorship by the company’s lawyers. Here, she explains how England’s libel laws have helped stall the film’s general release, and stopped the world learning more about the environmental realities of intensive livestock rearing more...
Overfishing sends Cape gannet ecosystem haywire
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
Cape gannet chicks are facing starvation as a result of overfishing of sardines and anchovies off the coast of southern Africa, as well as an increase in predation by other species affected by the food shortage more... Swine flu widower prepares to sue Smithfield
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
The husband of the first woman to die from swine flu in the US is preparing a case against pork producer Smithfield Foods, part-owner of the Mexican farm where the disease is believed to have originated more...
Sick as a pig
Jim Wickens
26th March, 2009
Another strain of MRSA is emerging from the factory farms of Northern Europe, and it is linked to the insatiable demand for cheap meat on our plates. The Ecologist Film Unit investigatesmore...
BLT Sandwich: The Big Lifestyle Trade Off
Jon Hughes & Pat Thomas
22nd September, 2006
Is it worse than Mc Donalds? The BLT sandwich is an icon, the ultimate symbol of convenience culture. Tesco alone sells 5 million a year. This is what the £1.80 you pay for your BLT buys... more...Warts and all
Lyall Watson
1st October, 2004
Hoover accepted human society for what it was: rich in resources but nevertheless imperfect, unpigly. And he discovered that a solitary pig is a sad thing, almost as useless as a bee without a hive. more...
Smithfield Foods: the truth behind its pigs and factories
Robert Kennedy Jr
1st December, 2003
The Ecologist goes inside the workings of Smithfield to reveal the true horrors of its pig production business more...Hoover
Lyall Watson
1st June, 2003
I think that pigs everywhere are dropping semantic pearls before human swine who labour under the delusion that all pigs can do is go ‘oink’ more...Members
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