Category: Ethical Pork
Sam Leach & Mary Holbrook – Rooting For Real Farms
Mary Holbrook’s battered white van drew up outside Sam Leach’s Birch Restaurant in Bristol to deliver a half British Lop… Read More
James Golding & Alan Bartlett – Rooting For Real Farms
James Golding, Chef Director at The Pig Hotel chain, believes that for taste and texture in the meat pigs must… Read More
Amelia Freer & Helen Browning – Rooting For Real Farms
When you look at Helen Browning’s British Saddleback pigs rooting for worms and grubs in the organic fields and wallowing… Read More
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall & Peter Greig – Rooting For Real Farms
‘I want to eat pork from pigs that have been reared outdoors, free to enjoy the rooting, snuffling and social… Read More
Jemima Jones, Lucy Carr-Ellison & Ben Goldsmith – Rooting For Real Farms
Of all the rare pig breeds, Tamworths are the most closely related to the Forest Pig that roamed through the… Read More
Mark Hix & Peter Gott – Rooting For Real Farms
Mark Hix’s quest for traditional British farm produce led him to Peter Gott’s stall in Borough Market where he was… Read More
Damian Clisby & Harry Boglione – Rooting For Real Farms
Harry Boglione, who supplies his parents’ restaurant Petersham Nurseries with organic meat and vegetables from his farm in Dorset, told… Read More
Guest Blog – Buying Meat: The Questions to Ask Yourself, by Amelia Freer
We each approach life with a vastly different set of ideas, beliefs, concerns and expectations which guide our decisions. Respecting… Read More
Antibiotic resistant superbugs found in factory farmed pork
After decades of pumping antibiotics into livestock to compensate for inhumane and disease-inducing conditions, bacteria are now fighting back. A… Read More
In search of the elusive grass fed pigs
Grass Fed beef and lamb are becoming quite common it would seem. Having 4 stomachs, one in particular called the… Read More
Not just cruel to pigs – farmers are the other victims of intensive animal farming
Last Sunday was a big day for me. The Mail on Sunday ran my article about the dreadful conditions in… Read More
Tracy Worcester goes undercover to expose illegal practices in the UK pig industry
UK pig farm undercover exposé (10min version) Share Share UK pig farm undercover exposé (2min short) Share Late one evening… Read More