Britain’s pig farmers are going out of business. In this 90-minute programme Jamie Oliver wants to find out why; and to support farmers and help consumers to make better-informed choices by showing exactly how pigs live and die to put pork, ham and bacon on our plates.

He investigates how UK farmers’ expensive higher welfare standards have left them open to competition from some mass producers from the EU, which minimise costs, but may have questionable levels of animal welfare. And he’ll be cooking cheap, but tasty cuts of pork to feed a family on a budget.

Thursday 29 January 2009
9:00pm, Channel 4