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Pig Business
Washington D.C.
Spring 2011
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Our Role
Seedling Projects spearheaded the dissemination and community engagement for the powerful UK made documentary, Pig Business. On March 9, 2011, hosted by the Center for Food Safety, Pig Business was screened for media, NGOs, and non-profits at the Capitol Visitor's Center in Washington DC. This U.S. premiere of the film was followed by small screenings and events hosted by farmers, butchers, churches and not for profit chapters around the city. The film shows the high price we pay globally for cheap pork and calls to life a lively discussion around industrial pig farming and its effects on the environment, our health and the welfare of small and medium-scale farmers.
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Project Details
Pig Business is a film by seasoned campaigner Tracy Worcester who set out to discover who was paying the true price for the cheap imported pork for sale in supermarkets. Documenting her investigation into intensive pig farming and the damaging impact it is having on the quality of our food, she visits factory farms in North Carolina and Poland, interviews activist Robert Kennedy, Jr., former factory workers, farmers, and the largest industrial pig producer and processor in the world, Smithfield Foods. Stream the documentary for free here.
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