When eating out or buying from retailers with no clear animal welfare labelling, always #JustAsk if the pork is high welfare.
Share the #JustAsk message
Share one of the featured campaign posts below on social media, or even better, post a selfie while holding up the #JustAsk logo. Either take a photo of yourself holding up the logo on another electronic device, or download the logo and print it off at home. Make sure to include the hashtag #JustAsk and tag @farmsnotfactories. The selfie could even be taken in a place selling pork such at the shop counter or restaurant.
#JustAsk about pork provenance when eating out or when no animal welfare labels are present. If it’s not high welfare, don’t buy it!
When eating out, always #JustAsk if the pork on the menu is from a high welfare, UK farm. If it’s not, don’t order it!
Why should we #JustAsk?
Many shops and restaurants source pork from the very cheapest producers in the UK and beyond. This forces local, high welfare farmers to compete by becoming ever more intensive – or get out of the industry altogether. We have to stop funding factory farming and start supporting these high welfare farmers by refusing to buy low welfare products. If the animal welfare isn’t obviously displayed on a product it probably means the retailer is trying to hide something. We must #JustAsk about pork provenance to show that we are not prepared to continue this race to the bottom.
What to #JustAsk?
Here are three key questions to ask when buying pork with no clear labelling information:
1. Does this pork adhere to an official labelling standard?
2. Are the pigs kept indoors or outdoors? If the pigs are kept indoors, do they have plenty of space and deep straw?
3. What farm did this pork come from?
If you #JustAsk and the answer is, “I don’t know”, then you have to assume the pork is most likely from a factory farm – so don’t buy it!
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