'The National Farmer's Union is seething about the front cover of Radio Times' More...

'The first is a new series of the BBC's Brass Tacks programme investigates the increase in factory farming in Britain and links it with major public health dangers in the future'   More...

'Farmers and butchers are preparing to bombard the switchboards of BBC local and regional radio stations after next Tuesday's Brass Tacks programme on BBC2 - about modern practices in livestock farming and meat production'   More...

'A major row flared this week between leaders of the livestock and meat industries and the BBC'  More...

'Brass Tacks returns with a full-blooded commitment to the multi-media technique it has pioneered'More...

'A picture of a pig has got Britain's farmers snorting with fury'  More...

'A COMBINED TV and radio programme on the use of drugs on farm animals has upset farmers and butchers even before it goes out' More...

'LEICESTERSHIRE, Northamptonshire and Rutland farmers plan to take part in a nationwide phone-in which is being staged as a follow up to a BBC-2 television programme on Tuesday, It Shouldn't Happen to a Pig'  More...

'FACTORY farming may mean cheap food but are we paying too high a price for this benefit in terms of health?' More...

'The National Farmers' Union considered taking out an injunction against the Radio Times and promised to send 'hot missiles' to the BBC's chairman and director-general'  More...

'At last, democracy is coming to television' More...

'IS THE MEAT you had for lunch poisoned?' More...

'The extensive use of drugs on British farms could pose a serious threat to public health... This and other findings linked to the alleged 'indiscriminate' use of drugs in livestock farming were powerfully spelled out in a BBC documentary - a programme shrouded in controversy even before its transmission' More...

'LANCASHIRE branch of the NFU have sent a resolution to headquarters deploring the BBC's handling of its 'Brass Tacks' programme' More...

'It Shouldn't Happen to a Pig was an electronic emetic. You either phoned up or you threw up'  More...

'The image presented in the opening film, which amounted to the case for the prosecution, were horrendous. If true, no one in their right mind would touch meat again'More...

'Without doubt, 'Brass Tacks' (BBC-2) is one of the most exhilarating studies of human emotions on any of the three channels' More...

'HUNDREDS of farmers sprang to the defence of the agricultural industry on radio phone-ins around the country after the BBC's controversial television report on pig and poultry farming' More...

'SIR - I have just taken part in a nightmare. Not one of the usual kind from which one wakes to the comforting reassurance of familiar objects, but under the glaring lights of a television studio'  More...

'The BBC spokesman denied that an internal inquiry is planned at the BBC about the 'Brass Tacks' programme'  More...

'A howl of rage has gone up among British farmers over BBC TV's Brass Tacks film on their industry... (Their) protests are an invitation to those of similar mind, perhaps in the new government, to deal once and for all with this 'dangerous creature.' But would that be wise?' More...

'The BBC should be thoroughly ashamed of the journalism on this programme, and we shall have to keep a very close eye on it' More...

'Trial by television puts chicken on the salmonella rack'  More...

'Controversies should be aired and people have the right to choose whether they wish to have cheap food and, possibly, take something of a health risk, or change to a different method of farming altogether; one which would be more expensive but would be less reliant on the routine use of drugs and chemicals.' More...

'John Parsons, a veterinary surgeon who had sat on the Swann Committee, said that farmers were “living on a knife edge” with intensive farming. The film pointed out that it was a balancing act between potentially big profits and financial ruin, Disease could tip that balance, so more drugs were used.' More...

'An internal Ministry of Agriculture survey ... seems to confirm the worries expressed in the recent BBC/TV programme Brass Tacks' More...

'NFU HEALTH WARNING. BBC TELEVISION CAN BE HIGHLY INDIGESTIBLE.'
'Radio Times for May 2 was already printed and awaiting dispatch. Could the NFU obtain an injunction to prevent its publication?' More...

'THE BRITISH Broadcasting Corporation has flipped its lid... This programme - billed in the Radio Times as 'a new concept in broadcasting' - is an insult to the public intelligence and professional journalism. If the hitherto much-respected BBC has any sensitivity left it will review the senior staff appointments on Brasstacks'  More...

'The agricultural antibiotics market in Britain is worth £20 million a year, so it is unsurprising that the industry has not been enthusiastic, at any stage, about measures likely to threaten its sales. Even self-interest has not induced the drug companies to take more interest in the fate of their products - products which, should the present growth of resistance continue, may well prove to be useless and therefore unused in another decade.'  More...