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The Guardian
5 May 1979
It Shouldn't Happen to a Pig
BBC 2

Brass Tacks (BBC-2, 8.10) returns with a full-blooded commitment to the multi-media technique it has pioneered: a report and debate thrashing through a topic of current controversy in the television programme, with BBC local radio stations lined up to start phone-in discussion the moment the television has ended.

   Factory farming, and the public risk of food poisoning arising from its crowded conditions and use of drugs - with salmonella the main enemy - is the first subject.
   The public response will be reported by presenter Eric Robson in a programme the next Monday.