Crowded farms have received as little as 70p/kg for “distress loads” of overweight pigs as the sector deals with a shortfall of 12,000 butchers and humane killing begins. Some pigs up to 140kg liveweight have sold for 70-100p/kg, been butchered into six primal cuts and exported to China, Poland and the Philippines. Such pigs are […]
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