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About 120,000 pigs could be culled and their carcasses dumped because of a shortage of butchers, the industry has warned.
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Mass pig cull threat due to butcher shortage, warns industry
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Boris doesn't care
Another one to re-train?
and Boris was accusing Marr of obfuscation.
Slackjawedyokel
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That’s exactly what I thought.
Minette making quite a good fist of it on R4 this morning (what I could hear above the kids anyway). Pointing out people’s fears over rising (food) costs and the sheer waste of having to cull pigs just because the rest of the food chain isn’t sorted.
Alicecow
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I suppose it's too difficult for the supermarkets to use packaging that fits the product rather than insisting that the animal fits into their prescribed sizes. Laughable when you think how oversized the packaging is for everything else - breakfast cereals, cosmetics, gadgets, etc.
Slackjawedyokel
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Yep- I’ve no experience of pigs, but abattoirs insisting on a 22kg pay ceiling for lamb carcasses (“so they fit the packaging”) just seems like a bit of a cash grab. Funny how you can cash them in at their full weight at the mart without penalty, and they’ll then head back to the same abattoirs
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Matthew
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Hecatomb: Sacrifice to the gods. A throwback to the buffoon who pretends to be our PM‘s classics education. A huge sacrifice for the greater good.
Brexit: making a pig’s ear of it | Turbulent Times
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Alicecow
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A huge sacrifice you say... Hmmm. Borriiiiiss!Hecatomb: Sacrifice to the gods. A throwback to the buffoon who pretends to be our PM‘s classics education. A huge sacrifice for the greater good.
Brexit: making a pig’s ear of it | Turbulent Times
Although they are dragging on, the two issues of pigs and petrol seem to be symbols of the divide between the unreconciled remainers and the Johnson version of Brexit. In the middle are the two distinct groups who are fulfilling the unwilling role of collateral damage: the diminishing number of...
Alicecow
Megastar
Hecatomb: Sacrifice to the gods. A throwback to the buffoon who pretends to be our PM‘s classics education. A huge sacrifice for the greater good.
Brexit: making a pig’s ear of it | Turbulent Times
Although they are dragging on, the two issues of pigs and petrol seem to be symbols of the divide between the unreconciled remainers and the Johnson version of Brexit. In the middle are the two distinct groups who are fulfilling the unwilling role of collateral damage: the diminishing number of...
It's a real indication of the nature (or arrogance) of a person when they choose in conversation to use words that the majority of their listeners do not understand.
Matthew
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Slackjawedyokel
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Exactly. That Boris always struck me as a right barba tenus sapiens
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4wd
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I don't understand why this is suddenly a big issue when the (assumed) EU workers went home months ago.
Perhaps they managed to struggle on by delaying batches and it almost worked for a while.
The other big problem for staffing was the stupid covid app pinging people to isolate when they might have been two rooms away, that seems to have gone off the radar now as a problem.
I thought a lot of abattoir workers at least for sheep were of muslim persuasion so not particularly likely to be from Poland or Romania
Perhaps they managed to struggle on by delaying batches and it almost worked for a while.
The other big problem for staffing was the stupid covid app pinging people to isolate when they might have been two rooms away, that seems to have gone off the radar now as a problem.
I thought a lot of abattoir workers at least for sheep were of muslim persuasion so not particularly likely to be from Poland or Romania