According to this article 120,000 British pigs facing cull if labour shortages in abatoirs caused by Brexit not fixed. German pork is flooding the UK market to make up for the shortfall. Farmers butchering their own piglets because there is not enough space for them on the farms. This is what people voted for. https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/cheap-european-pork-floods-uk-market-as-mass-pig-cull-begins-293898/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=sfeu"Last week, it emerged that a Yorkshire farmer has been forced to cull hundreds of piglets because post-Brexit labour shortages in local abattoirs mean adult pigs aren’t being slaughtered fast enough.The backlog is leaving less space on farms for younger pigs, which are cheaper and easier to kill.The farmer has been “destroyed by it”, a friend told BBC News. “He had to kill perfectly healthy, viable piglets. It’s desperate. I’ve been producing for 26 years, and never faced the prospect of having to butcher pigs on my own farm before.”
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