Blog articles - Farms Not Factories

Launching the ‘Rooting For Real Farms’ film series - 17th Aug 2017

To mark the launch of our ‘Rooting for Real Farms’ video series – part of our campaign to end factory pig farming – our office and friends took to the streets as a mob of unruly swine to spread a very visual message to the public. During what was perhaps one of the hottest weeks… continue reading

Sam Leach & Mary Holbrook – Rooting For Real Farms - 3rd Aug 2017

Mary Holbrook’s battered white van drew up outside Sam Leach’s Birch Restaurant in Bristol to deliver a half British Lop pig. Sam heaved it out and into the kitchen where he carefully and skilfully divided the cuts while explaining the different ways he uses the head, fat, bones, liver, tail and trotters. On the blackboard… continue reading

James Golding & Alan Bartlett – Rooting For Real Farms - 27th Jul 2017

James Golding, Chef Director at The Pig Hotel chain, believes that for taste and texture in the meat pigs must have a happy, unstressed life, and at the Pig Hotel in Studland, Dorset this means a shady patch of woodland with a view out to sea. ‘I am responsible for these pigs. As a chef,… continue reading

Amelia Freer & Helen Browning – Rooting For Real Farms - 19th Jul 2017

When you look at Helen Browning’s British Saddleback pigs rooting for worms and grubs in the organic fields and wallowing on hot days in cool muddy pools you see why they are happy and healthy and hardly ever need antibiotics. This is a world away from the barren concrete pens in factory farms where pigs… continue reading

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall & Peter Greig – Rooting For Real Farms - 12th Jul 2017

‘I want to eat pork from pigs that have been reared outdoors, free to enjoy the rooting, snuffling and social interaction that are so essential to them. In fact, that’s the only pork I’m prepared to eat,’ this is what Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall told us as we filmed him putting a slow-cooked shoulder of pork ‘Donny… continue reading

Jemima Jones, Lucy Carr-Ellison & Ben Goldsmith – Rooting For Real Farms - 5th Jul 2017

Of all the rare pig breeds, Tamworths are the most closely related to the Forest Pig that roamed through the oak woods that covered the English countryside at the end of the ice age 10,000 years ago. That’s why Ben and Jemima Goldsmith’s Tamworths thrive so well eating acorns and rooting for grubs in a… continue reading

Mark Hix & Peter Gott – Rooting For Real Farms - 26th Jun 2017

Mark Hix’s quest for traditional British farm produce led him to Peter Gott’s stall in Borough Market where he was introduced to pork from Peter’s wild boar who spend their lives rooting and grubbing in mixed woodland above the farmhouse. The taste was a revelation, and Peter has been supplying Mark’s expanding chain of restaurants… continue reading

Damian Clisby & Harry Boglione – Rooting For Real Farms - 21st Jun 2017

Harry Boglione, who supplies his parents’ restaurant Petersham Nurseries with organic meat and vegetables from his farm in Dorset, told us that when he decided to become a farmer his dad thought it was ‘a complete and utter disaster’ but after a couple of years he changed his mind and became a bit envious, wishing… continue reading

Is the BBC promoting factory farming? - 21st Apr 2017

Is the BBC promoting factory farming? BBC Countryfile recently ran a very important story about the rise of antibiotic resistant diseases in pig farms, and the potential risk to human health like antibiotic resistant bacteria passing from pigs to humans. The programme suggested that a solution had been found on a Danish farm that used… continue reading

Farmdrop – The Proper Way To Shop - 12th Dec 2016

Farmdrop – The proper way to shop We have partnered with Farmdrop to run a Facebook competition where you can win £100 worth of delicious food and drink in time for Christmas. We chose them for our competition because we buy their weekly box and it is so fresh and delicious that not a leaf… continue reading

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