Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, and the UK’s supply chain crisis
- Introduction: Business confidence falls, fuel crisis continues…
- …butchers shortage; energy cap rises, furlough ends
- Full story: UK business confidence collapses as fears of ‘stagflation’ grow
- Nearly half of UK’s independent petrol stations still lack fuel
- Britain facing mass cull of pigs due to butcher shortage
- Energy price cap rises today, squeezing families
The UK is heading into an “acute welfare disaster very quickly” with the country facing a “mass cull of animals”, the chairman of the National Pig Association has warned.
Following warnings that a shortage of butchers could impact food supplies over Christmas, Rob Mutimer told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the situation has worsened:
“The problem in the industry has got very considerably worse over the last three weeks. We are within a couple of weeks of actually having to consider a mass cull of animals in this country.”
“It involves either shooting pigs on farm, or taking them to an abattoir, killing the animals, and actually disposing them in the skip at the other end of the chain.
“So these animals won’t go into the food chain. They will either be rendered, or if not, sent for incineration. So it’s an absolute travesty.”
“The pens and the sheds and everything just weren’t designed for animals of this size and we’re really heading into an acute welfare disaster very quickly,” he said.
“My information this morning is that the situation is stabilising across the country, albeit there’s obviously still high demand for fuel.
Let’s hope that over the next few days that eases as people’s tanks fill, and that extra demand starts to abate a little, and we can get back to a more predictable pattern of supply”
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