Pig Business: 2200 tomorrow

Excellent news. Tracy Worcester's documentary Pig Business has finally cleared the legal obstacles and should finally be shown on More 4 at 10.00 pm on Tuesday 30 June. It's going out as part of their 'Great British Food Fight', though it is relevant to food production everywhere, particularly in the USA and the EU.

Don't miss this one. It's vitally important for the pigs, sure, and that matters -tremendously. Just as important for humanity that it decisively rejects the mindset that embraces such indefensible, abject cruelty as a necessity, economic expedient, or even revels in it as a positive improvement in efficiency.

Yet this film is far more than just an expose horrors of factory pig farming. Along the way it questions our whole relationship to food and the environmental consequences arising from it at a most fundamental level. In essence, you get what you pay for - be it benign and enlightened, or utterly unacceptable. Here we get that message unequivocally and straight from the horse's mouth.

In that regard we learn of the attitude of one of the massive companies involved in this type of agribusiness, whilst under scrutiny gaping holes are revealed in European Union policy as we see the catastrophic effect it has had on Poland and its agricultural sector, one of the the most sustainable and environmentally benign in Europe, and the Polish diaspora that has resulted. Anyone interested in Poland will therefore find it essential viewing.

Absolutely not to be missed is Bobby Kennedy Jr, who has to be the epitome of an environmental lawyer and a lion amongst environmentalists. Just imagine a world where every environmental lawyer was as a unequivocal and committed. Here again he has been right in the thick of things opposing pig business from the beginning, and finishes the programme with some stirring and well-targetted oratory which we could all well heed.

All yours. Previous posting discussing the film and the legal obstacles it has had to surmount can be found here and here.