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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

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

Antibiotic resistant superbugs found in factory farmed pork - 6th Sep 2016

13. We are facing a crisis of terrying proportions...

After decades of pumping antibiotics into livestock to compensate for inhumane and disease-inducing conditions, bacteria are now fighting back. A new survey of factory farmed UK pork from supermarkets found that 63% of pork samples were contaminated with antibiotic-resistant E.coli, bacteria that cause life-threatening kidney infections and blood poisoning. Pigs in factory farms are so… continue reading

In search of the elusive grass fed pigs - 2nd Sep 2016

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Grass Fed beef and lamb are becoming quite common it would seem. Having 4 stomachs, one in particular called the rumen, helps makes this possible for those animals. This rumen is something that pigs chickens, turkeys lack. Its purpose in a cow is to host a mind boggling abundance of beneficial bacteria, which break down… continue reading

Thinking Pigs - 26th Aug 2016

Pigs have great memories, particularly when it comes to finding food (as shown from this study at Bristol University)

We’ve all heard a little bit about how intelligent pigs are, or even how social they are or how they’re actually among the cleanest of mammals. But recently The Farm Sanctuary released a comprehensive, fascinating and rich portrait of pigs based on Marino and Colvin’s 2015 peer reviewed article Thinking pigs (1). The report has… continue reading

Not just cruel to pigs – farmers are the other victims of intensive animal farming - 2nd Aug 2016

By Tracy Worcester Last Sunday was a big day for me. The Mail on Sunday ran my article about the dreadful conditions in an intensive UK pig farm I investigated. In turn that drew massive public attention to my film showing the horrific conditions the pigs and piglets had to endure (see video below). As… continue reading

Tracy Worcester goes undercover to expose illegal practices in the UK pig industry - 28th Jul 2016

UK pig farm undercover exposé (10min version) UK pig farm undercover exposé (2min short) By Tracy Worcester Late one evening last week, uninvited, I entered into a pig farm in the English countryside to film what I knew to be horrendous conditions for the animals there. We waited till the workers had clocked off and… continue reading

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