From our correspondent in London
In front of the entrance to the Conservative Party's Annual Congress earlier this month in Manchester, demonstrators were staging a good-natured protest.
A man disguised as a pig danced among passers-by against a backdrop of
"
Save our bacon
"
signs
.
The subject didn't make them laugh though.
Because of labor shortages, the profession raised a resounding cry of alarm, fearing that it would have to resort to mass slaughter of pigs.
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By their crazy absurdity, the figures launched by the National Farmers Union created a shock in the opinion.
He warned that the shortage of staff in slaughterhouses and butchers could lead to the slaughter of 150,000 pigs.
These animals will "not be able to"
enter the food chain and be incinerated or thrown in the trash
"due to lack of manpower to process the meat, said National Pig Association president Rob Mutimer.
To try to fill in the gaps,
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