Christmas will be impacted by the crisis in the butcher trade, according to one pig farmer, who has predicted a shortage of pigs in blankets.
"I know slaughtermen have been booked to go into East Anglia next week for 4,000 pigs and that's just the start of this, the mental anguish and toll on farming families is just going to be horrendous," he said.
"It's going to be soul-breaking, it's not right, it's not financial, we'll weather that, as we have through the pandemic. It's the emotion - it's the thought of not being wanted by the government."Mr Thompson says if labour shortages are not addressed, every pig farmer in the UK would be facing a problem
Mr Thompson said that if labour shortages weren't addressed, every pig farmer in the UK would be facing a problem, and 12,000 pigs a week could be destroyed. He said that if pigs get too big, they are worth less, citing the example of a pork chop from an overweight pig being too large to fit into a supermarket tray.Image:Mr Thompson also warned that the crisis would have an impact at Christmas.
"There'll be no pigs in blankets," he said."It's such a waste: we've got food poverty, food banks, and to be burning pork… there'll be hundreds of thousands of gallons of diesel just to burn it.Sky News has contacted Defra for comment, but is yet to receive a response.
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