This Morning's Clodagh McKenna visits Eastleach Downs farm

Clodagh McKenna went to Eastleach Downs Organic Farm as part of Rooting for Real Farms.

In these videos, top chefs urge people to stop factory farming by only buying from local, high welfare farms.

Eastleach Downs is run by Helen Wade and has free roaming pigs that are sold from its own on-farm butchery.

In the video Clodagh, who regularly showcases her cooking on ITV’s This Morning, prepares a pork ragu recipe she learnt when living in Italy.

She also describes her visit to a pig factory farm and highlights the case for better quality meat through high welfare farms.

Watch: This Morning's Clodagh McKenna visited Eastleach Downs Organic Farm as part of Rooting for Real Farms

“I’ve seen the conditions that factory farm pigs are kept in, it makes me upset just thinking about it now," she said.

"They’re in little pens and they have no place to move. If I think of any of the animals that I have living like that, I just feel we’re not doing a good job in this world as humans.

"It’s really important to cook using high welfare meat, not just in terms of nutrition, taste and texture, but so that we vote with our wallets for the type of food system we would like to see, for local high welfare British farmers and not those horrible factory farms.”

Helen added: “For me the welfare of the animal is the most important thing, pigs are very intelligent creatures and they should have the best possible life we can give them.

"We rear rare breed saddleback pigs which have a bit more fat but as chefs will tell you, fat is flavour.

Rare breed saddleback pigs at Eastleach Downs Organic Farm

"The difference between the pigs living here and in factory farms is huge. In factory farms pigs are kept in concrete pens with slatted floors.

"They bite each other’s tails through boredom and frustration which is why their tails are routinely docked, and are often kept in semi-darkness all their lives while the mother pigs are in a farrowing crate in which they can probably only take a step forward and backwards and lie-down.

"It’s such an unnatural environment. We pride ourselves at Eastleach Downs Farm by giving all our pigs the life they deserve, a more natural life.”