What’s the Pig Deal?

May 8, 2010

Find out by viewing Pig Business— a film exposing the devastating global impact of factory pig farms on our environment, human health, rural communities, and animal welfare.

Pig Business, featuring Robert Kennedy, Jr., and UK eco-campaigner and director Tracy Worcester, reveals how U.S. concentrated agriculture feeding operations (CAFOs) are now moving to Eastern Europe—particularly to Poland—and demonstrates the link between clearing forests in the Amazon to grow soy for feed to pig farms.

For more information go to: www.pigbusiness.co.uk

To view the film on YouTube: Pig Business

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Take Action NOW!

Buy local foods by joining a CSA group , visiting a farmers market or using the Eat Well Guide to find a farm near you.

Relevant Legislation

Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act (House Only)
Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009 (House version) (Senate version)
Ohio Livestock Care Initiative

For More Information

Visit Sustainable Table or the Center for Food Safety for more information on factory farming and how you can help
Watch The Meatrix
For more resources and reports about the factory farm system, please visit www.factoryfarm.org.
To find out which corporate farms received the bulk of government subsidies from 1995-2004, visit the Environmental Working Group’s Farm Subsidy Database.

Reports and Articles

CAFO’s Uncovered – Union of Concerned Scientists report on factory farming.
How Sustainable Agriculture Can Address the Environmental and Human Health Harms of Industrial Agriculture – This article lays out the main problems with industrial farming today, and gives sustainable solutions to these problems.