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27 January 2010 by Zac Goldsmith

Pig Business House of Commons film screening

 
URGENT ACTION - THE PIG BUSINESS TEAM NEEDS YOUR HELP - Ask your MP to attend the Pig Business event at the House of Commons
 
 



Your actions as a consumer could see the end of factory farming – but we need government to act too. This is why we are organising an event at the House of Commons to lobby MPs. It will be a chance for MPs to hear what experts are saying and commit to the legislative changes. These are:

 - To get clear labeling of the method of production of pig meat- both fresh and processed.
 - Ban imports of pig meat that are of a lower standard that UK laws allow.
 - Ensure humanely produced, UK pig meat in schools and hospitals, forces etc – to be at least freedom foods standard or equivalent.

Peter Ainsworth MP and Zac Goldsmith will host the event and many NGOs will speak to the assembled MPs and journalists. Please can you write to your MP ? Mass produced emails that are just copied and pasted don’t work. So we need you to write a short message to tell your MP how you feel about the film and why it shocks you.
Please ask for three key things:

  1. Ask your MP to watch the dvd of Pig Business that we will send them.
  2. Ask your MP to attend the Pig Business event at the House of Commons on the 27th of January 2010 at 6-9pm.
  3. Ask your MP to sign the Early Day Motion number 562 Pig Welfare

To do this, click on this link  and enter your postcode. You will be presented with a list of your representatives – pick your MP (shown in the third column) and then fill out the form and write your email, including the two ‘asks’. Even an extremely short note will be effective.
Thank you for your help
 
 
ISSUES
Pig Business highlights four main impacts of factory farming operations.

 - Abusing animals : Every year 1.2 billion pigs worldwide are slaughtered for meat, of which more than half have been reared by industrial, intensive methods.

 - Destroying small farmers : Small independent farmers are relentlessly driven out of business by the economies of scale which large pig production systems can command.

 - Jeopardising our lives : It is not only animals which are harmed by factory pig farms. Intensive farming can put human health at risk as well.

 - Polluting the environment : The livestock sector is “one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global”.

Livestock production, mostly factory farming, is expected to double across the globe by 2050.