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Boycott pork?

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Boycott pork?
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2422418/Piggery-at-centre-of-investigation-revealed

The farmer at the centre of a probe into pig treatment says people protesting intensive farming practices need to boycott pork.

Pork industry heavyweight Colin Kay - outed by an animal welfare group as the owner of a farm Levin featured on a weekend current affairs programme highlighting poor pig treatment - said today that he was concerned at public perception but his piggery met legal requirements.


Eh what? 

Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Jamie Oliver had exactly the same thing on his in studio expose about sow stalls, calling for the end of it in the UK, the Pork Industry there had the same argument as here. If we got barn/free range the price will go up and we'll be undercut by the imported sow stalled pork.

It will take a long concerted effort by consumer groups and media to change the publics perception to a) Accept the price increase of the free range product and b) Demand by selecting only the free range product.

I have a lot of sympathy for the poultry, pork and beef producers  - Hugh F-W on his show had a chicken farmer in the UK say the supermarkets were only paying him something like 15p a chicken. Imagine only getting 15p for something you got to raise & feed for 3-4 months - no wonder they resort to intense farming - they've no option.

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almost 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I wonder if the "organic" breeders dropped their very high prices down to compete with these horrible method users, if the price war would actually drive them out of the market as people would no doubt support the free range idea.
 
I can't see it happening but it is a positive way of removing a barbaric practice surely??
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