On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:03:40 +0100, "Pat Gardiner"
<patgardiner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Pat's Note: The reasons given are genuine enough and mirror the
"official"
>reason given in Canada.
>
>However the uncertainty created by Britain's bent government vets failing
to
>release a statement on MRSA and C.Diff in Britain's pigs does not help.
>
>Panorama last night can't have helped. Later we will find that all the
big
>stakeholders have covered themselves financially from tip-offs from
inside
>Defra.
>
>The stakeholder nonsense is a licenece for insider trading and fraud on
all
>the small farmers.
>
>http://www.thepigsite.com/swinenews/17759/farmers-take-slaughter-option-as-feed-cost-rises
>
>
>Farmers Take Slaughter Option as Feed Cost Rises
>
>UK - Britain's pig farmers are forecast to post losses of £200 million
this
>year. An increasing number of them are sending more of their breeding
>animals to slaughter to avoid the soaring cost of feed.
>
>
>According to the Times Online, the British breeding herd has halved over
the
>past decade to 436,000 sows. Mick Sloyan, who runs the British Pig
Executive
>(BPEX), an industry association, is predicting a decline of another 10
per
>cent this year.
>
>Farmers are making a loss of £22 per animal, according to BPEX, because
of
>the rising cost of wheat, corn and soya meal. Many are pulling out of
>pig-rearing altogether.
>
>Mr Sloyan said: "It's a capital-intensive business. In order to stay in,
you
>need to invest. In the first three months of the year, there has been a
35
>per cent increase in the number of breeding sows sent to slaughter."
>
>Farmers are killing their breeding stock rather than face the cost of
>feeding sows and piglets. This reduces further a shrinking industry that
>supplies only half the ****k and bacon consumed in Britain.
Scandalous to consider the complete and utter disregard these ponces
have for animals that they value their lives as worthless. No doubt a
reflection on the value of their own miserable existence. I would
happily supply free rope to the tossers that felt they wanted to end
it all.
Lazy wankers. All this because they don't want to get a proper job
like the rest of us.
They moan incessantly that no one sup****ts the British Farmer any
more, and this is a clear example of why we don't sup****t them.
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