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Hundreds of healthy pigs have been culled due to the labour shortage

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Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox At least 600 healthy pigs have been culled dut to a nationwide labour shortage in abattoirs, according to the National Pig Association (NPA) Zoe Davies, chief executive of the NPA, has warned that a mass cull of pigs, despite not happening yet, is very possible and could be "the next stage of the process." A backlog of animals ready for slaughter has been caused by the abattoir labour shortage which farmers warned could lead to 120,000 pigs being culled. Read more: Christmas will be 'considerably better' than last year, PM insists - despite supply chain warnings Farms are struggling to find space for the extra pigs due to the backlog which means

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