4,500 pigs to be slaughtered within days due to staff shortages
4,500 pigs to be slaughtered within days due to staff shortages
A critical shortage of butchers means healthy pigs reared for food are now being disposed off for nothing (Picture: Shutterstock/AFP)
Thousands of pigs are set to be killed and disposed of in the coming days because there aren’t enough workers to process the meat.
The pig farming industry is facing a staffing crisis that means animals which were due to be butchered for food will now be culled en…