British Pig Meeting

Following my attendance at the "Pigs Are Still Worth It" rally in London, with local farmer Cameron Naughton, I wrote to all the major supermarkets and to the MoD to ask what they are doing to help British Pork Farmers. On Tuesday 3rd May I arranged to meet representatives from the National Farmers Union and National Pig Association in order to discuss how best to take the campaign forward. My constituency of Devizes in Wiltshire used to be world famous for pig breeding and processing but now down to only a handful of commercial pig farmers. A report by the BPEX, The Impact of Feed Costs on the English Pig Industry, reveals that the sustainability of the English pig industry is under severe threat as a result of escalating feed grain prices (up by 30%) and a consistent fall in the price paid for a finished pig. 80% of pig farmers are struggling to realize a profit on production and 70% say they will have to quit from keeping pigs if the situation does not improve in the next 24 months.

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