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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Fionnula Hainey

Pork industry faces devastation as thousands of healthy pigs culled

Healthy pigs are being culled due to a lack of butchers in pork processing plants, farmers have revealed.

Around 35,000 healthy pigs have been killed, according to the National Pig Association (NPA).

The industry body estimates that there are more than 200,000 animals being held on farms amid staff shortages that are preventing them from being processed.

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