Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Stephen Thompson has been a pig farmer all his life.
But he says he's never seen a crisis like the one the industry is currently experiencing. Like many farmers Stephen faces the heartbreaking prospect of culling and incinerating hundreds of healthy pigs, simply because there aren't enough butchers and abattoir workers to slaughter them.
The 60-year-old keeps around 2,000 pigs at Povey farm in the village of Norton on the outskirts of Sheffield. READ MORE: Why pig farmers are causing a stink at the Tory conference Every week he sends about 80 animals off for slaughter with the meat normally sold on to the major supermarkets and retailers.
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