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Why pig farmers are causing a stink at the Tory conference

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Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Pigs farmers facing the prospect of having to cull tens of thousands of healthy animals due to an acute shortage of butchery and abattoir workers are protesting outside the Conservative Party conference in Manchester.

Farmers have warned that up to 120,000 pigs will have to be slaughtered and incinerated because they cannot go to the abattoir and they have nowhere left to house them.

On Monday morning campaigners from Save GB Bacon group gathered in St Peter's Square. Wearing pig costumes and pig masks they held up placards which read 'We farm to feed the nation not feed the landfill' and 'We'd rather give it away than throw it away'. READ MORE: Ma

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