Ministers to hold emergency meeting over crisis in pig industry
Thousands of healthy pigs on farms in East Yorkshire and right across the Calendar region are at risk of being culled due to a shortage of skilled butchers.
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East Yorkshire pig farmers call culling of 10,000 healthy pigs criminal
A lack of abattoir workers meant 10,000 pigs were culled in the region in the run-up to Christmas, East Riding of Yorkshire Council was told.
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