Tag: UK farmers

This “disaster should have and could have been avoided”, and that the situation pig farmers find themselves in “truly is an utter disgrace”.

A leaked note reveals the government is “considering dropping animal welfare and food standards and allowing hormone-treated beef into UK markets”.

This, together with a drastic reduction in people’s meat consumption would achieve not only lower greenhouse gas emissions and better environment and wildlife, but also better health.

A National Farmers Union representative said UK farmers need support from supermarket chains because of changes made to agricultural policies after Brexit.

A new parliamentary report warned the “blind optimism” shown by Tory ministers could force many small and tenant farmers in England out of business - but environment secretary George Eustice insists UK farmers are better off since Brexit.

On Christmas Eve, the government announced it will extend the worker scheme which allows foreign seasonal workers to come to Britain for up to half a year to do horticulture jobs which have been left vacant.

“Yes, I did vote for Brexit, but I can assure everybody that is listening that I did not vote for this. I voted for people to be more patriotic," the upset farmer has said.

Industry leaders warned that up to 120,000 pigs may be disposed of if there will continue to be a lack of workers to process meat, causing more financial loss to UK farmers - amid Boris Johnson's suggestion that the pigs would have become "bacon sandwiches" anyway.

"I can't believe as a life-long Conservative voter, I stand at the moment thinking I would be very, very unlikely to vote Conservative again at the moment," one Brexit-voting farmer bemoaned.