With 2 weeks to go until Pig Business: Time for Change, our event at the House of Commons, I just wanted to thank everyone who has written to their MP and shown a real demand for change. Your efforts are working. 25 MPs are attending our event on the 27th January and joining a whole host of people from NGOs, supermarkets, caterers, farmers and celebrity chefs.
It’s a chance to for them to hear about the negative impacts of factory farming and listen to experts ranging from organic farmers to epidemiologists. The swine flu outbreak is our warning that industrial farming practices are not just damaging our environment but also endangering our health. It’s a warning we should not ignore.
Action is required from all sides, from the government setting standards, to the supermarkets being transparent, to consumers thinking more about the meat they buy. We not only hope to start a conversation about making positive progress towards more sustainable pig farming but want to start action too.
Words about possible, potential action sometime in the future are not good enough. Voices of dissent about the way we raise, treat and source our pork are starting to be heard.
They all seem to be saying it’s time for change.
PS Still not too late still to write to your MP
Still no reply from Diane Abbot. Did anyone else write to her?