Pix at the Piggery

If you're having roast pork and apple sauce for the main weekend meal, the odds are weighted fairly heavily in favour of the piggery of Seabrook Bye-Products as the place from which your piece of pork first saw the light of day. The piggery is often in the news-something to do with the nose-and as we were passing it one day we thought you might be interested in just what does go on behind the scenes there. We found a hive of industry, scores of pens filled with pigs of all shapes and sizes (there are between 2000 and 3000 pigs being raised) and a truck driving between the pens constantly filling the quickly-emptied troughs.

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Some of the porkers approaching the weekend-dinner stage

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In huge digesters the pigs' food is prepared