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Does the Government have its head in the sand over problems in the pig sector? It continues to face questions from pig farmers about whether it鈥榣l take action to prevent a mass cull of pigs, which will not go into the food chain. More than 100,000 pigs are unable to be slaughtered and processed because of a lack of qualified butchers, and abattoir workers. Farmers have been asking the government for weeks to enable workers to come to the UK to help solve the problem.

Defra secretary George Eustice told a Conservative Party Conference fringe meeting that some 'processors are telling their farmers they have not got the labour to do this, but they are then importing large quantities of pork from Eastern Europe, so they actually do have the labour to do the processing.'

That statement is challenged by Nick Allen, chief executive of the British Meat Processors Association.

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