UK to Issue Visas to up to 800 Extra Foreign Pork Butchers

UK to Issue Visas to up to 800 Extra Foreign Pork Butchers
A pig farm in Norfolk, England, on Oct. 5, 2021. Joe Giddens/PA
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Up to 800 foreign pork butchers can apply for a six-month working visa by the end of this year, the UK government said on Thursday, after some pig farmers started to cull their pigs.

Pig producers have been calling on the government to let in foreign butchers as the shortage of abattoir and meat processor workers left pigs to back up in barns and fields across the country.