Year of Food and Farming

The Year of Food and Farming is a government-supported exercise aimed at promoting a positive image of food production in Britain. It will carefully airbrush out the animal suffering, endemic disease, environmental destruction, economic inefficiencies and damage to human health that are integral to the meat, dairy and egg industries. Every child will be offered the opportunity to make a pre-planned visit to a carefully selected farm, and food production and farming will feature right across the school curriculum.

To counter this well-heeled propaganda offensive, Animal Aid has launched its own Year of Food and Farming initiative.

When Animal Aid took students to look around a chicken unit, they were not welcome. Watch an extract from our film Eat This! and then ask, ‘what do these farms have to hide?’