Tracy Worcester has worked in the environmental movement for many years. Between 1996-1998 she had a market garden selling organic vegetables via farmers markets, local stalls and vegetable boxes delivered to local homes.
She has worked to shift development away from dependence on unaccountable transnational corporations and banks towards local interdependence within smaller units on the local and regional level.
For the last two years she has made and screened a film, Pig Business, to expose the hidden costs behind the mass-produced pork on our supermarket shelves, hoping that viewers/consumers will use their buying power to help create a more compassionate world.
From the director’s statement:
The film shows the pork industry as just one example of the corporate take over that affects every sector of our economy. Factory farmed pork is only cheap because the corporate producer has externalised the true costs onto the broader community. Locals suffer from the polluted water and air but we are all affected when the power wielded by big business destroys democracy and crushes free speech by intimidation.
By avoiding pork from corporations and investing that money in human scale production, we are revitalising small farms and their farm shops, farmers markets and local butchers. If shopping in the supermarket we must seek out labels that indicate British and outside bred and reared or free range on straw bedding.
To achieve her objectives, Tracy works as a writer, film maker, public speaker and fundraiser and is associated with the Gaia Foundation, the Soil Association, Transport 2000, the Good Gardener’s Association, the International Forum on Globalisation and is Associate Director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture.
