Farmers want us to eat more pork, save their bacon

Farmers want us to eat more pork, save their bacon
Brent Melville
Pork producers say they may have to cull 20,000 or more pigs in the next four weeks if food manufacturers and supermarkets are unable to fill the gap left by the closure of independent butchers and restaurants.Pork NZ says the closure of butchers, food service and Asian supermarkets in particular, deemed non-essential under covid-19 rules, had immediately shaved local pork demand by about 40 percent.Local producers account for about 12,500 of the 31,000 pigs consumed weekly and the industry estimates the local surplus will be around 5,000 pigs...

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