U.K. Offers Foreign Butchers Visas After 6,000 Pigs Culled
- Britain to allow short-term work permits amid labor shortage
- Pigs have backed up on British farms as abattoirs lack staff
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The U.K. is easing immigration rules to allow visas for foreign butchers in a bid to ease a severe backlog of pigs awaiting slaughter, after thousands of animals were already killed on farms.
The government on Thursday said it will offer 800 short-term work permits to pork butchers. It will also enable meat processors to store slaughtered pigs for as much as six months, so they can be preserved and processed later on.