Source: Tom Levitt, THE GUARDIAN, 7/21/21


After more than a decade trialling the removal of pig cages on her Yorkshire farm, Vicky Scott has lost confidence in being able to make it permanent. Doing so would require building a new shed to create enough space to freely house all her pigs, she says. “No one will pay for this. They [the retailers] want products as cheap as chips and consumers want cheap meat.” Yet, the UK and EU are expected to ban all forms of confinement in pig rearing.

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