100,000 pigs to be destroyed

[Farmer Fin]

Since the ping Demic , absolute mess .

Spring time?

 

[Hilly]

Spring time?

When did that stupid app start the nonsense.

 

[curlietailz]

I took my son to a McDonald’s on Friday evening in Bury st Edmunds for a “treat”

I think it’s safe to say most of the foreign workers are now working for just eat, deliveroo etc

There must have been up to 10 different guys going in there picking up deliveries! All driving up and swinging round in a pedestrianised area.

Ive never seen anything like it, things have changed so much in the past 18 months.

Maybe McDonald’s should start offering pork products, it was incredibly busy in there. The drive through at Mildenhall was queued to the main road on the way to BSE and still like that on my return home.

I wonder what % of the nation they feed everyday?

It’s the same up here
Drives me mad when I pop t McD for a bacon roll or coffee
A third of the car park is taken up with little old cars which are almost exclusively driven by young men waiting for a Deliveroo etc job , they swing round the car park, stand in huddles/gangs in the car
park
it’s actually turned into a bit of a sinister place in my opinion

 

[Farmer Fin]

When did that stupid app start the nonsense.

But has it not been building from before? From the start of covid. Was there not a shortage of CO2 then? Seems to me like a perfect storm. Covid, lack of labour, high feed prices and a race to be the biggest producer. I don’t understand why producers didn’t reduce sow numbers / serving numbers a few months back?

 

[Hilly]

But has it not been building from before? From the start of covid. Was there not a shortage of CO2 then? Seems to me like a perfect storm. Covid, lack of labour, high feed prices and a race to be the biggest producer. I don’t understand why producers didn’t reduce sow numbers / serving numbers a few months back?

Yes few things come together and created a big problem .

 

[Sonoftheheir]

It’s the same up here
Drives me mad when I pop t McD for a bacon roll or coffee
A third of the car park is taken up with little old cars which are almost exclusively driven by young men waiting for a Deliveroo etc job , they swing round the car park, stand in huddles/gangs in the car
park
it’s actually turned into a bit of a sinister place in my opinion

They certainly look very shifty types and not well educated. Similar looking to the ones that do the hand car washes. So were they here before Brexit (doing jobs in factories ect) or have they come in recently?

 

[maen]

But has it not been building from before? From the start of covid. Was there not a shortage of CO2 then? Seems to me like a perfect storm. Covid, lack of labour, high feed prices and a race to be the biggest producer. I don’t understand why producers didn’t reduce sow numbers / serving numbers a few months back?

It’s also been successive Governments wishing to shut mixed local Slaughter houses by making life almost impossible for them to operate. Where most large towns (once villages) had facilities it’s now counties or even just a few National. These super factories are not ‘interesting’ places to work. Denmark automated its pig slaughter industry years ago. High value jobs maintaining to machinery. In the UK there has been too much centralisation and not enough investment due share holder demand.
Co2 is another matte.Government energy policy and reliance on Russian gas run by thugs. Madness.

 

[Hilly]

It’s also been successive Governments wishing to shut mixed local Slaughter houses by making life almost impossible for them to operate. Where most large towns (once villages) had facilities it’s now counties or even just a few National. These super factories are not ‘interesting’ places to work. Denmark automated its pig slaughter industry years ago. High value jobs maintaining to machinery. In the UK there has been too much centralisation and not enough investment due share holder demand.
Co2 is another matte.Government energy policy and reliance on Russian gas run by thugs. Madness.

They way they have regulated small slaughterhouses out of bussiness is disgusting .

 

[Y Fan Wen]

But has it not been building from before? From the start of covid. Was there not a shortage of CO2 then? Seems to me like a perfect storm. Covid, lack of labour, high feed prices and a race to be the biggest producer. I don’t understand why producers didn’t reduce sow numbers / serving numbers a few months back?

I thought it was oxygen.

 

[Ceri]

It's concerning times at the mo...... Wats the crack with the bed & breakfast pig job currently...? I almost went for it couple of years ago but didn't in the end, was it a lucky escape or..........?

 

[Courier]

Yes few things come together and created a big problem .

Going ahead with “B” in the face of a pandemic was the greatest folly imaginable

 

[Courier]

They way they have regulated small slaughterhouses out of bussiness is disgusting .

Was that not as a result of EU directives, or was it just how Whitehall interpreted those directives ?
What is the situation with local slaughterhouses on the continent ?

 

[Hilly]

Was that not as a result of EU directives, or was it just how Whitehall interpreted those directives ?
What is the situation with local slaughterhouses on the continent ?

I don’t know will anyone know the truth .

 

[Courier]

I don’t know will anyone know the truth .

This report is comparing Serbia with a “model” EU country - Austria.
I found pages 10 and 11 quite illuminating

http://www.eastagri.org/docs/group/474/Report%20study%20tour%20AUSTRIA.pdf

 

[Werzle]

Pig job had always been volatile boom or bust farming.

Regards the labour shortage and big business wanting cheap labour, an old neighbour had the answer this morning " we need the slave trade to start up again"

 

[bluebell]

we need to stop making it not worth it working ? and stay on benifits ? to many and i speak of what i know round were i live, many many of workable age etc, dont work because it pays to be on benifits thats a fact that will very soon have to be sorted out ?

 

[Courier]

we need to stop making it not worth it working ? and stay on benifits ? to many and i speak of what i know round were i live, many many of workable age etc, dont work because it pays to be on benifits thats a fact that will very soon have to be sorted out ?

It’ll have to happen ‘cos at the moment the UK wouldn’t even meet the Copenhagen Criteria fo joining the EU

Copenhagen criteria - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Chae1]

I love the big queues at McDonald's. Always makes me smile to see all those people buying beef.

Think there one of the biggest retailers of British beef.

 

[Lowland1]

I live in a third world country with a third world government. I seem to be a citizen of a country with a third world government as well. Luckily my Dad died and we got rid of the pigs because this would have killed him for sure.

 

[Pistonbroke]

I was talking to someone who has just gone into b and b pigs and he was saying how the pig job is on it's arse. I asked how it affected him and he was almost laughing about it not being his problem because he's in a contract. Surely it is his problem if the pigs are losing money and the firm concerned can't pay the bills?