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Not me by the way!!!
Not me by the way!!!
Hart/xxxxxxxxx?Not me by the way!!!
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it’s a false alarm.xxxxxxxxx/Wayland
Nobody has yet clarified what it WASit’s a false alarm.
The issue of labour shortage is now across many if not most industries. Some of us are beginning to question the wisdom of restricting our ability to function as a Country because of political dogma. We have many jobs that require labour in agriculture, hospitality, care industry, meat industries, NHS, and many more. It’s a long list. We also have a large number of people that are retired and whose retirement is partly dependant on an economy that is vibrant and working efficiently.This was raised as part of the food security questions by EFRA Select Committee Chair Sir Robert Goodwill with Johnson yesterday as part of the serious business of the PM facing the Parliamentary Liaison Select Committee
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Johnson has form on this but just a shame he couldn’t be held to face the music on this for our hard pressed UK pig producers
This is what you get with the irksome likes of Eustice and Johnson and their "free market" / anti support agenda
Germany does not have to many pigs!Well, big sausages anyway - mostly in Germany where they have too many pigs still and African Swine fever has just jumped right across the country somehow to nearly France and we still import all their pigmeat without inspection whereas my sows would have to be accompanied by endless paper trails and inspections.
Which would make me think at some point it will start and get expensive.Germany does not have to many pigs!
The statistics are flawed because they dont represent the amount of pig halves that get imported to be cut into pieces by cheap rented labour from the Netherlands and Denmark.
They show up as the finished meat in the statistics, however.
And what you get in the UK aren't sausages it's pork belly because you love Bacon so much.
The price for them in Germany is pretty low right now because 50% of the Breeders gave up in the last 5 Years and are selling their sows.
It will but at the moment the demand is also pretty low because of inflation, people stop buying meat to save some Money.Which would make me think at some point it will start and get expensive.
Or get diverted via Hull, probably most comes in through there anyway to xxxxxxxxx?Felixstowe dock workers to strike - maybe some of the dozens of containers of pork that come in there every week will not arrive in the supermarkets in time?
Ah that would be the difference between pigs they own and pigs they buy off third party producers! That sums up a lot of the problems in the industry.Not sure if it's true but told xxxxxxxxx offering bqp producers more money .would be nice if they actually took the pigs contracted to them instead
Good news indeed. I am told by my butchers that they can't shift meat, certainly turnover on meat is down in our shopWas told by someone who should know that there’s a million pigs less a week being killed in Europe than this time last year. That has surely got to have an effect.