Pig producers want country-of-origin labels on produce

A GROUP of pig producers from Cork and elsewhere protested at Tullamore Show about the level of meat imports and how they are labelled.

The placard-carrying farmers suggested that many people at the show did not know if the rashers and sausages they had in their traditional breakfast that morning were Irish.

Conor O'Brien, Mitchelstown, a spokesman for the group, said consumers are being misled by Irish place names, brand names and slogans on the labels of many pigmeat products.