Film: PIG BUSINESS - The Hidden Costs of Factory Farming

José Bové MEP (Greens), Dan Jorgensen MEP (S&D) and Janusz Wojciechowski MEP (ECR) invite you to attend and support the Screening of the film 'Pig Business' and the debate that will follow. This event is lobbying for changes in EU agricultural policy.
Please invite your MEPs (Click here  for instructions) and contacts in the European Commission etc to attend and, if appropriate, recommend that your members write to their regional MEPs asking them to attend (Click here for an example).
The event will ask MEPs to:

1. Recognise that the profitability of factory farming depends on externalising its true costs onto the broader community.
2. Amend the Common Agricultural Policy post 2013 to move European agriculture away from industrial livestock production to sustainable, humane and autonomous forms of animal husbandry.
3. Better enforce and strengthen the existing EU Directive on the welfare of pigs.  

We are inviting MEPs, including those on the agriculture and environment committees, commissioners, political advisors, industry, press and NGOs.
Details:

• Date: 9 February, 2011
• Time: 15:00 - Pig Business film screening 
             16:00 - 18:00 Presentations and debate
• Location: Room P1A002, Paul-Henri Spaak building, European Parliament, Brussels.

Agenda:

• Introduction: Tracy Worcester, director and producer of the film Pig Business
• Screening of Pig Business: 15:00 – 16:00
• Presentations and debates: 16:00 – 18:00

Speakers:

• Economic and social costs: MEP José Bové / René Louail - Farmer / Food Sov CAP speaker TBC
• Environmental costs: MEP Dan Jorgensen / Mute Schimpf - FOE Europe / Antje Koelling - IFOAM EU Group 
• Human and animal health: MEP Janusz Wojciechowski / Peter Stevenson - Compassion in World Farming / Coilin Nunan – Antibiotics adviser to the Soil Association

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND, PLEASE CLICK HERE
(it is essential that you register by the 2nd of February 2011)
The film Pig Business is available to watch on our website in the following languages
Chinese (Cantonese); Danish; Dutch; French; German; Italian; Polish; Portuguese; Romanian; Slovenian; Spanish; Ukrainian & English. US & Canadian versions of the film also available.
Online Resources:
Celebrity trailer of the film Pig Business: Click here
Act as a consumer, buy local and sustainable: Click here
Screening toolkit and other resources: Click here.
20 facts on the true cost of factory farming: Click here
The latest expose on the cruelty inside Smithfield's sow factories in America: Click here
The latest libel threat from industry to silence objections to new pig factory: Click here
Help the Soil Association's 'Not in my Banger' Campaign: Click here

Contact Us:
Please share your thoughts with us after watching Pig Business.
For more info or to order a DVD or find out more about how to embed Pig Business into your consumer education campaign, please visit www.pigbusiness.co.uk or contact a member of the team at info@pigbusiness.co.uk.