Pig producers want rip-off tackled

A RIP-OFF in the food chain must be addressed now if consumers are to have native supplies of pork and bacon products into the future, pig producers have warned.

IFA Pigs Committee chairman Pat O’Keeffe said producers want to continue in business but they do not have endless resources.

If the processing industry is to secure its future supplies, it must pay producers a better price and this has to be got from the market place.