MEP vents anger as French pig farmers 'manipulate the rules'
UK - Scotland's rapidly diminishing band of pig producers is under serious financial pressure with losses in the region of 320 for each animal sent to slaughter. Last Thursday's meeting of the rural affairs committee of the Scottish Parliament accepted that there were major problems. Richard Lochhead, rural affairs secretary, promised to set up a task force to investigate what the Scottish Government could do to help – but there was no offer of hard cash up front.
23 April 2008
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