Despite Poland’s traditional food being amongst the best quality in Europe, the agenda of the global banks and big agribusiness, aided and abetted by EU bureaucrats, is to consolidate Poland’s three million farmers into mechanized factory farms. Pig Business film reveals that these huge meat factories overcrowd and mistreat the animals, put small farmers out of business, and pollute the water and air, endangering the health of local residents and consumers.
Former workers admit that because of overcrowding they have to pump the animals with antibiotics. Richard Young, policy adviser to the Soil Association, warns of growing human resistance to antibiotics because of residues in pork, and the possibility of new forms of super-bug emerging. A local doctor confirms that employees and neighbours are poisoned by the stench of a cocktail of 400 gases inside the shed, due to the vast quantity of effluent which putrefies in slurry lagoons before being sprayed onto nearby fields.
Tracy Worcester’s message is that consumers have a choice. We need not stand by as corporations ride roughshod over communities, destroying democracy and culture.
Followed by question and answer session with Tracy Worcester, the film’s director and Kirtana Chandrasekaran, food campaigner at Friends of the Earth.
Time and venue
15:00-16:00; Rich Mix screen 3
