The Marchioness of Worcester explores the true costs of factory farming of pigs in Pig Business - A new feature-length authored documentary, to be aired by More4 on June 30th, takes a close look at factory farming methods in the pig industry, many of which originated in the US but are now being employed in Europe.

Pig Business is the result of more than four years of fearless and intense research across the US, Poland and the UK by passionate environmental activist Tracy Worcester. The Marchioness has dedicated her life to fighting what she sees as the harmful, exploitative corporate practices that now dominate the world's food production.

Tracy Worcester argues that the factory farming methods which are being introduced mean the end to natural, humane and healthy traditional farming methods and increase the health risk to pigs, people and planet.

Exposing the farming methods that "bring home the bacon", the film reveals: · The enormity of the super-farms and the disposal methods used to deal with the tons of pig waste generated.

· How giant lagoons are filled with pig waste that have polluted waterways and poisoned fish.

· How safer alternatives to most of these practices have been ignored because of economics · How factory farms can out-compete small independent farmers in the market place, it's argued, by externalising costs on the broader community.

· How the lives of residents of neighbourhoods close to these super-farms are often blighted by the stench.

· How pig waste is used to spray fields in these neighbourhoods further adding to the suffering of the residents.

· A scientist identifies studies which show that a significant percentage of workers in these super farms can develop chronic respiratory illness.

· Pigs existing in crowded, darkened pens can suffer from infection and injury - experts believe the anti-biotics given routinely to intensively farmed pigs are creating resistant strains of bacteria.

· Because of the EU's agriculture policy, thousands of Polish farmers who have helped to keep their landscape an "unspoilt jewel of Central Europe", are being driven out of business and into unemployment and migration · The advance of factory farms in Poland has been helped by huge multi- million dollar loans from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - a bank guaranteed and subsidised by the tax-payer.

· Supermarkets choose to bulk buy from the super-farms and inadequate labelling often makes it unclear where and how the pork has been produced · UK independent pig farmers claim they are being ruined because they cannot compete with the cheap cost of imported pork produced to lower standards in Europe.

· The solutions described are to buy British to ensure the sows are not kept in crates their entire pregnancy and to buy from farmers markets and high street butchers to support independent farmers Commenting on her film, Pig Business, Tracy Worcester said: "Whether in Britain or abroad, I've seen small family farms going bankrupt because of the arrival of giant factory farms."

"This film is the story of my four-year exploration into the pig business - where pork is produced, how it is produced and who wins and who loses."

"The images of human cruelty inflicted on pigs shown in my film are horrendous but, actually, the impact of this industrial farming on our health, the quality of our food, the livelihoods and health of rural people and the environment is equally shocking."

The film draws heavily on the experience of activists and experts including Robert Kennedy Jr., nephew of the late US President John F. Kennedy, an environmental lawyer who has led successful legal actions against factory farms.

Robert Kennedy says: "These facilities sicken the people who live down wind. Neighbours complain that they can no longer hang their laundry or sit on their porch during the summertime or plough their fields without becoming sick".

""We had an American revolution in this country to create democracy, we need a new American revolution in this country now to fight against the corporate feudalism that we are now dealing with, that is embodied so much by this industry, that is eroding everything and subverting everything that we care about in our democracy"

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