Joanna Lumley Gets Crated Like A Pig On Jamie Oliver Show
Written by Vegetarian Star on January 16th, 2009 in Actresses, Animal Issues.
The UK show Jamie Saves Our Bacon featuring celebrity chef Jamie Oliver may have a man behind the wheel, but there’s a female giving some directions as well.
Actress Joanna Lumley (The New Avengers, Sapphire and Steel), both vegetarian and animal lover, will be demonstrating what pigs who are crated endure by joining students who will live in the farrowing crates for 24 hours.
Farrowing crates are the narrow cages pigs are kept in while giving birth and feeding their litters.
“The conditions they face are both physically and psychologically harrowing,” the actress told the Times Online.
The program is meant to educate on how pigs are treated on farms and to let consumers know where their food is coming from. While some have argued that it doesn’t solve the problem of animal abuse because it’s not advocating vegetarianism, it’s at least trying to incite the creation of more humane standards for the animals, which is a step forward.
“Jamie Saves Our Bacon” will be showing on UK Channel 4.
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