Britain’s farming industry has warned that hundreds of thousands of pigs may have to be culled within weeks unless the government issues visas to allow more butchers into the country.
Read the full article on the Reuters website
NAM Implications:
- For context:
- NPA: “There’s about 120,000 pigs sat on farms currently that should have already been slaughtered, butchered, be within the food chain and eaten by now”.
- For urgency:
- National Farmers Union, said a cull of up to 150,000 pigs was “potentially a week, ten days away”.
- Over to you, Boris…!
