31/10/2016 Inside Out London

Hello there, I'm Matthew Wrhght you're watching Inside Out London.

Here's what's coming up on tonight's show.

With the partridge and pheasant shooting season under way,

we exposed the cruel breeding practices these game birds `re

subjected to.

The way that they are factory farmed, the way that

they are transported in cagds, is it morally acceptable in a modern

civilised countries like Brhtain?

Why Margate is becoming the new Shoreditch on Sea.

Here you can buy literally ` whole town house for,

like, the price of a one-bedroom flat in Hackney.

It is just ridiculous.

And repair or replace?

Can our throwaway culture ever be reversed?

If we all kept our clothes hn use for a bit longer then the

impact that that makes on the environment

and on our pockets is

huge.

The shooting of game birds like partridges and pheasants

on hunting estates around the country is big business and

the season is already in full swing.

But an investigation by Inside Out London has

exposed the cruel breeding practices that underpins thhs

multi-million pound business.

We discovered how many game birds are reared,

transported in appalling conditions, leading to distress,

injury and even death. Chris Rogers has this exclusive

report but I should warn yot that some of the images in his fhlm

you may find upsetting.

This is the image of game bhrds rearing that the shooting

industry trades on.

Free range pheasants running wild in the lush English countryside

But these birds began their lives in an environment that

is far from natural.

This is very distressing to see so many birds kept in

this way continuously.

The horrendous cruelty that is involved in the kind of life

that these poor creatures h`ve.

The way that they are factory farmed, the way that they are

transported in cages, is it morally acceptable in modern

civilised country like Brit`in?

From the devices that can mttilate beaks to metal cages that h`ve lead

to injuries and premature ddath

We exposed the cruel way in which these birds are brdd

and how the law is failing to protect them.

Whether for food or sport, game birds shooting on country

estates has been long considered a quintessential English pastime.

Now it is also big business.

We are talking about roughlx ?2 billion every year invested

in the UK economy. 74,000 full-time jobs

is what we're looking at.

But what is really interesthng is actually this investment is now

starting right here in London.

We are starting to see more and more pubs putting this

game meat on the menu, people going out there and trying

it, people going out and seding if I can aid this game,

it is tasty stuff and good for me and all the rest,

I'm going to go out and learn to shoot myself.

The shooting industry is kedn to get the message across that gamd meat

is ethical and free range.

But those claims are proving controversial.

We have received a tip-off about a game breeding farm

where it is alleged to the birds are being held in

appalling conditions.

There are thousands of partridges and pheasants here, they ard used

as breeders to supply chicks to shooting estates across the UK.

Each of the birds has two strvive in a very small space.

We are told they are banging their heads in a bid to esc`pe.

The noise that this year, the noise of birds banging

on the side of the cages, lhsten to, it is so distressing to hear.

Many of the birds here have been injured or broken their necks

while trying to free themselves

And there is no one here, to care for them, nor

want to show them compassion, no one to help free this bird.

All they want is this, that is all it is about.

An egg.

These birds are locked in these barren cages for 24 hours a day

every day of the breeding sdason.

The chicks they produce are marketed as free range.

Back in London, we showed otr footage to experts and anim`l

welfare campaigners.

I think that is shocking, because they are under

an incredible amount of strdss, they are going to suffer injuries

from damage to their feet from the wire mesh at the b`se

of the cages and as you can see in the footage, they are julping,

which damages the top of the head and beak.

They have a life in a metal box when it is hot it

must just be unbearable, and when it is cold

that must be equally as miserable for those birds.

They are treated as little more than egg producing

units and it is torture.

During our investigations wd visited the other game bird farms.

Far from being free range, all were reminiscent

of the industrialised battery farming of hens eggs.

In fact, if these birds were battery hens these typds

of cages would be illegal.

Animal welfare laws which cover birds forgot about game birds,

they included chickens and other types of farm birds but somdhow

they forgot about game birds.

It is like they are the wrong kind of bird, it sounds like a tdrrible

British Rail excuse but acttally that is the reality of it.

There is a code of practice, outlining the best care for game

birds, issued by the Departlent for Environment, Food

and Rural Affairs.

But the government has admitted to us that while they investigate

allegations of cruelty on g`me farms, they do not carry

out routine checks.

In a statement they said thd animal and Plant health agency takds

potential breaches of animal welfare legislation very seriously

and investigate all allegathons

The government seems entirely unconcerned

with the welfare of the birds, they have no idea of how

many of the farms are operating within even the most basic

guidelines, even within the code of practice.

They have literally no idea what is going on on those f`rms

because they don't send anybody out to inspect them.

We are heading to another g`me farm, where chicks are held captive before

they are transferred to a shooting estate.

Industry insiders say it is normal to witness dead birds on gale farms.

But the state of death and decay here is overpowering.

We are told these chicks have been plucked and pecked to death by other

stressed out birds.

The conditions that he would see on a day-to-day basis are jtst

unimaginable, and it seems that the people in charge wdre just

OK with what they were saying.

Darren worked at a pheasant farm for seven months,

he claimed hundreds of so-c`lled free range checks were routhnely

crowded into sheds and outbtrsts of aggression were common.

We have hit his identity.

Chicks would stay in the shdd until they were fully maturd,

which usually takes about 6,8 weeks.

They did have access to a rtn outside, but the dominant ones,

the aggressive ones, would be territorial,

so almost didn't go out so they are really stressed out

and when they are stressed out a attack each other.

Some would pick the feathers of the other ones and when they

were really stressed out they would even get cannibalism

To reduce feather pecking and cannibalism, gamekeepers

and their supporters say thdy need to use devices which restrict how

wide the birds can open the beaks.

Pecking is something that occurs when you have captive

birds, it happens.

Within the game breeding sector a bit is applied as a short,term

measure when there is evidence that there is an issue

within a particular group of birds with feather pecking.

Although these components are widely used and perfectly legal,

fitted incorrectly they can leave birds injured, even mutilatdd.

The birds are in a highly stressed state because they were fitted

with devices over the beaks to restrict the movement

of the beak, the birds were reacting very badly to it.

Every year, around 40 million UK reared pheasants and partridges

are released on to shooting estates where they are provided with food

and water and can run wild for as long as they survive.

But this huge number of birds is not enough to meet market demands.

So they are supplemented with around 17 million other birds

imported from the continent.

This footage filmed by the `nnual welfare charity league against cruel

sports in France last year claimed to show hundreds of chicks

being crammed into a lorry bound for England.

The charity says many of thd chicks were just one-day-old,

some did not survive the jotrney.

They are transported in app`lling conditions, they will suffer

an extraordinary cramped conditions, dirty conditions, and then

the arrival and they are put into a pen and they are

shot for entertainment.

As a result of this footage to ferry companies have stopped a shhpment

of pheasant chicks on its fleets.

League Against Cruel Sports are now calling on an industrywide ban.

The countryside Alliance is the most prominent pro-shooting

organisation in the UK, representing over 100,000 mdmbers,

including game farmers and breeders.

They agreed to discuss the dvidence our investigation has uncovdred

We've got footage of game bhrds being raised in appalling

conditions, the next were broken, they were trying to get out.

Some birds did get out and were dead and rotting.

And the appalling conditions just go on and on.

I can tell you that having taught shooting for seven years I have been

on a lot of game farms and H have not seen the sort of situathon

that you are describing.

There is always going to be elements of human failing within any system,

but obviously where it occurs it is not to be defended

and was anyone to be in bre`ch of the code we would condemn that

and what we stand by is fivd years of DEFRA research that definitively

said that these cages are ott what is appropriate

for the welfare of the birds.

What we found was the pheas`nts were happier in those razor like

cages than the wear on a floor pen.

So you are relying on the rdsearch and code of conduct

to make sure that these birds are taken care of.

Definitely, that is what we're saying.

So would it surprise you that they don't do routhne

checks of these farms?

DEFRA don't?

DEFRA don't do routine checks.

If nobody is checking these farms including DEFRA then who is?

who wrote this code of condtct, if they are not checking thd farms

There is the game farmers Association, who very rigidly

adhered to that court, and promotes that code and has

a membership and if they were to find out that one of the melbers

was not adhering to the codd then they would take that

issue very seriously.

So the industry is checking the industry?

There is certainly an element of self policing.

These images suggest that when it comes to animal welfare, industry

self-regulation is not workhng.

Government guidelines needs to go much further to save all gale

birds from horrific conditions on British farms.

Chris Rodgers reporting there.

Now, still to come on tonight 's show.

Consumers in the UK public are increasingly recognising

what the true cost of our throwaway culture is.

They can see the environmental cost, they can make the consumer culture

with climate change, the can link going shopping

on Oxford Street with what happens when a factory collapses in places

like Bangladesh and China.

Time was when some of the trendiest postcodes in town, Notting Hill

Camden, Hoxton, still rough around the edges, but just

about affordable to live in.

Those days are long gone, buying anywhere remotely

up-and-coming in the capital is beyond the reach

of Generation Rent.

The result, many talented Londoners are simply leaving this citx

and the destination of choice is the once rundown seaside

town of Margate.

Mark Jordan went to meet the trailblazers forging thdir very

own Shoreditch on Sea.

For several years, I have bden tracking the shopping cost

of a place to call home in London.

The frenzied race to buy.

Rip-off rents.

Would people ever say enough is enough?

It is small.

And where on earth would thdy go?

And it is no longer just a threat, last year over 30,000

thirtysomethings said goodbye to London.

I never thought I would leave London, ever.

There is nowhere cheap any lore so where do you go?

London should worry to have 30, 00 more thirtysomethings

leaving the capital.

It is just starting to rain, we are nearly two hours frol London

in a faded all seaside town.

This is Margate and they call it the new Shoreditch on Sea.

Could that really be true?

Once proud Margate went on to embody the death of the British se`side.

It has all the decay and promised that once brought in years hn two

Shoreditch in Hackney.

Hackney is showing severe signs of decline.

Hackney has gone from derelhct to gentrified in a generation.

Today, the cheapest we could find in the area was a one bed ex-council

flat for 340,000 on this estate

The original Hackney pioneers are being pushed out.

But where to go?

A home in the roughest and lost unloved parts of London

will still cost you hundreds of thousands of pounds.

The capital, it seems, has sold out of rundown and cheap.

And that is where Margate comes in.

This is the new frontier, they call them Hags,

pioneering hipsters, artists and gays down from London

to build a new life. They are all flooding down here

66% of the people who have loved you have come from London.

Margate has the highest price rise of any council town this ye`r,

somebody who is selling the one or two bedroom flat in the Dast End

can come here and buy a six bedroom glorious town house.

Something just like this.

A huge house.

It is, yes.

We've got no power in here at the moment,

but if we had an up...

It is a Time Capsule.

Just what our pioneers are looking for.

All these old features are hncluded.

So this old house is six bedrooms?

Six bedrooms, two reception rooms, kitchen, bathroom, large garden

over three floors.

How much?

263 500.

I think the Shoreditch on Sda slogan is definitely more of a nickname

but it is kind of nearer wh`t has happened in some of the London areas

where they were no-go areas, four years, and now they are suddenly

the place to be.

And it is not just grand old houses, you can buy a one bed flat

from 50 5000.

I moved from south London two years ago for the same reasons th`t a lot

of other people are moving here to get on the property ladddr.

And just to appreciate what you can have your in comparison

to what you can dream of having when you are up there.

Leanne and Matt are also quhtting east London for market.

Two years ago I met them along with a 50 others struggling to buy

this east London flat.

It has left them tired of London.

Then we went for another fl`t in Mainstone, then that went,

the price went up by ?50,000.

We got so sick of it, the East London crowd all sdem

to have followed that ripple as far as Margate.

I always thought it was a bht of a Ukip seaside town, a bit run down.

It is two months on and Leanne and Matt's second

viewing on this five bed Margate house.

It is huge.

Go the west wing.

At 357,000, it is a home you can get lost in.

You have to like call over from the East Wing

and I will be in the West Whng.

If you don't need to work in an office you can work

anywhere with the Internet.

Here you can work from home, it is much nicer, a more calm

down without life here.

Matt you know what one of these is?

A garage?

Yes!

When was the last time you saw a garage in London?

This would be a small house in London.

I think it would be a one-bedroom flat.

I think London will regret being so expensive, because it

has forced out a lot of the young artistic peopld,

the people that have made London and especially

East London what it is.

Paul quit Hackney for Margate just as business boom for his high

end industrial designs.

Like chandeliers from jet engines.

We are not installed Newington any more, people are leaving

for financial reasons.

We took on a hotel in Sydnex, which was huge, we have takdn

on a couple of restaurants in Singapore, which were huge.

I think the minute the creativeness moves out of London,

which it appears is happening, which is a huge shame for London

and what it is and what can be.

In in particular there are lots of commercial propdrties,

small property is perfect for running businesses from.

Undervalued and under loved.

This is great British culture.

Even Dreamland has creaked back into life.

But many ghost still stand untouched.

We know that virtually everx studio operating here is full,

we know that there is a waiting list for some.

We have had a 36% reduction in unemployment over

the past three years, 18% more businesses

in the last two years.

In an old picture framing w`rehouse, dozens of London rivals

set-up work space.

This will be where my studio is

James is a musician and music producer.

I was in Hackney for eight xears.

It is getting really clean, it is almost becoming like

the inside of an airport terminal.

It is too expensive and I fdel so much more free here.

I am able financially to be able to build a studio, have a flat

and actually have a car for less than what I was paying for one

room in London.

The same London stories as xou go from studio to studio.

Personally it was really upsetting to be pushed out of somewhere

you have been your whole life.

It was very frustrating as well

To see that most people my `ge are having the same problems.

It seems like there's nothing we can do about it but move somewhdre else.

London first represents somd of the capital 's leading elployers.

It is not just Margate that can end up taking a slice of London's pie,

it can be places outside of the UK, we are seeing Dublin,

Berlin and other places are being their hands with glee

at the prospect of taking some other tech companies and creative

industries away from us.

We have this brilliant cluster often called Silicon roundabout,

that could end up some kind of silicone cemetary if all

the people who work there ddcides to have a better life elsewhere

We need to build the homes that those people need to lhve

in everyone to keep them here in this brilliant capital.

London first to say one in six of the capital's companies

are considering relocation.

We have some people literally travelling for an hour and ` half.

Feed, a successful Shoreditch Tech advertising company

employs 120 people.

I think London has got to be careful.

We have been looking at Manchester for some time.

Similar things happened in San Francisco when the prices

went up dramatically and evdryone started moving to LA.

From California dreams to London's new exiles in Dreamland Margate

Margate wakes up and starts the day as we would all like to do, slowly.

I absolutely feel like I have made the right decision.

I get to see the sea every day.

Do you live to work or do you work to live?

Do you know, our consumer goods are getting so cheap that everything

from furniture to fashions to electronics, that I can't

remember the last time I got something fixed when it broke.

I just threw it away.

So maybe our government shotld be following the lead of other union

states and encouraging more of us to repair and reuse stuff

rather than throw it away.

Some individuals and businesses are doing just that and herd

in the own words are some of those pioneers try to put our throwaway

culture into reverse.

We are in Graham Park estate in Garnet.

We opened this shop in April.

We have collected over 1400 items, which is about 20 tonnes of items

that would have ended up in landfill.

We have engaged around 660 residents and residents came up to us and said

they have been crying out for something like this

on the estate.

Either a resident with cont`ct us and say they have an item they no

longer want or one of our tdam of staff of volunteers will spot

an item on the street that light be repairable or usable as it hs.

Then it goes to the workshop that we assess what needs to be dond to it.

Then when we have an item that is usable and sellable

we will bring it into the shop year and we will sell it to residents.

We are living in a throwawax culture, still, in the UK.

If anything this is getting worse and worse.

Throwaway culture is a systdm of production that is predicated

on overproduction, excessive consumption.

The good part is that consulers in the UK public are increasingly

recognising what the true cost of our throwaway culture is,

they can see the environmental costs, they can link the consumer

culture with climate change, they can link going shopping

on Oxford Street with what happened when a factory collapses in places

like Bangladesh and China.

And I think this is where the motivation needs to defhnitely

be coming from the UK Government to respond

to what it is that we are concerned about.

What we are doing here is providing a system that allows them to reuse

and then you find people retse them perfectly happily.

It is only by doing things like this on the small-scale and provhng

the concept that you can thdn roll it out on a wider scale.

I am Tom Cridland, and and H run a sustainable fashion busindss

Which aims to cut out unnecdssary retail mark-ups and offer ltxury

clothing whilst engaging the mass-market with

sustainable fashion.

So the 30 year sweatshirt is a sweatshirt that we pledge

to make sort you like and so well that we guarantee it

for three decades.

That means within the next 30 years if something was to happen to it,

it was to record her, you could send it back to us

and we would mend it for free or replace it.

We have sourced materials environmentally, we have dotble

reinforced sleeve seams and we have worked with a manufacturing team

have been in business since 197 and shown me sweatshirts

that were the 1970s.

We are using the 30-year concept as a way of engaging the avdrage

consumer with the need to fhght against this throwaway culttre

and this wasteful cycle of consumption that fast

fashion is promoting.

People just value and treastre things far less than a used to,

and I find it very sad.

I think the price that we p`y at the check-out does not rdally

reflect the entire social price of producing that, it does not

factor in the environmental costs, it does not factor in the f`ct

that there is an exploited workforce that are making these in factories

or working on plantations in order to be able to drive

those prices down.

It is very difficult to convince the consumer that it is worth then

spending that little bit more and getting clothing made

like in a bygone era, where clothing actually took time

and effort to be put togethdr and it was not just stitched

together carelessly by people who are badly underpaid and badly

undervalued by the fast fashion corporations

that they are working for.

We live currently in a line`r economy, so basically things

are made, they are sold, we use them away but the move

I think now needs to be madd, and there is a lot of impetts

for this particularly in London to a more circular economy

where people are more empowdred to do their own repairs,

to reuse things, but also where we collaborate with btsiness

and with policymakers and stakeholders right across London

to come up with a system whdreby we are able to keep materials in use

for longer and are able to feed them back into the system.

Hi, my name is James Rubin, and I set up EnviroWaste in 201 .

We are a waste management company and we focus and specialised

specifically an electronic waste.

With coming into the industry at this time, we are like it is time

for a change and we are abld to see the needs of the marketplacd

and built the company around that, so we have built our companx around

this circular economy model.

So let's not just treat a laptop as a waste item,

and then send it off for recycling, let's actually value it and try

and repair and refurbishment at upgraded as quickly as possible.

We would then work with IT resellers who would come in and buy in bulk

and then sell it on individtally and to be honest, we are of

a new generation that understands the electronics much better

than the other generation s`w the mindset that we have,

we have built, we can see what needs to be done with this new waste

stream which is only really become apparent in the last ten ye`rs.

Our impact only grows the bigger company gets,

and the bigger impact the bdtter for the environment.

It would make much more sense of the government set

to complete like ourselves, you're doing a good

job, so here you are.

Get some help.

Tax breaks would be awesome but I don't think that is going

to be around a corner any thme soon.

It is estimated that the cotntry could save 23 billion

per year by moving towards a more circular economy.

There should be a massive incentive for businesses

to move into this field.

What they need is a bit of help

When the government steps in it does really accelerate that procdss

but whenever I have tabled Parliamentary questions and tried

to push them on what they are doing it seems very far from the thoughts,

which I think is disappointhng.

If other European countries are doing it we are going to find

that we get left behind.

We have been running quite ` few workshops in the past coupld

of months and quite a few rduse events to encourage people to do

more and pass on some of those skills.

If we all kept her clothes hn use for a bit longer then the ilpact it

makes on the environment and our pockets is huge.

This evening I will teach you some hand sewing

and machine sewing skills.

Coming to a workshop like this and learning how to fix your laptop.

I remember growing up my father used to mend the Christmas lights every

year and those kinds of things we just don't do any more.

We just don't know those thhngs that we are not just losing stuff

as a result we are losing some sense of control over our lives h`d

over our own things.

Empowering consumers actually to repair the stuff,

even if it is a tiny little intervention,

it is part of that whole picture.

It is a piece of the jigsaw and it will enable us as a city to become

more resilient and resource efficient in the future.

And that is all for the current series.

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Thanks very much for watching, we are back in January.

I hope to see you then.

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