100 piglets face slaughter in farm row (From Daily Echo)
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100 piglets face slaughter in farm row
7:29am Friday 26th October 2012 in News
100 piglets face slaughter in farm row
ONE hundred piglets could be sent for slaughter after finding themselves caught up in a row between farmers.
The animals are among up to 180 pigs that Colin and Alison Gibson say would likely have to be destroyed if they are evicted from King’s Farm, in West Wellow.
Farm owner Ian Nelson says this is not his fault as the Gibsons had refused to discuss a timely way of leaving the farm and not communicated with him so the situation was of their own making.
Following a dispute, Mr Nelson wants the couple off the land at King’s Farm and is seeking a possession order.
But the Gibsons, who have been running a pig breading business supplying meat locally for nearly 18 months, say they have nowhere to go and no way to off-load their animals in a short space of time.
If forced to go they believe they would have to slaughter a large number of the animals – 180 mainly rare breed Iron Age pigs, including 25 breeding pigs and the piglets, some of which are just ten days’ old.
Mrs Gibson said such young piglets are worthless as meat because of their size so would be destroyed while boar Bart and sows Dilly, Lizzie, Gertie and Marg are considered family pets.
Mrs Gibson, 47, said that although they might be able to find homes for some, there was not enough time to seek out and vet new homes for all the pigs.
The Gibsons claim they were encouraged to be on the land and run a farm there by verbal agreement with farm owner Mr Nelson, who owns Sunnyfields Organic Farm, in Totton.
They permanently moved to the farm in Foxes Lane last September and have been living in a mobile home with their sons who are aged 17 and 22.
They said they were first given notice to quit the farm in September. The couple added they did not have a tenancy agreement and have not been paying rent, but were paying £350 a week on fuel for a generator as the site does not have electricity.
They understood they would only start paying rent when power was installed along with a building.
However, Mr Nelson said the Gibsons had not painted an honest and fair reflection of the situation, that they had had lots of time and there was no need to slaughter the pigs.
He said: “It was our intention to issue a tenancy and they were aware of the various timelines and planning issues involved in issuing a tenancy agreement.
We have revoked the licence which they had.
“As such they are now trespassing.”
Mrs Gibson said: “There’s no way we can move what’s taken us 18 months to establish, in two weeks.
“We don’t want to stay here, but he’s not given us reasonable notice to find somewhere else and move the pigs.”
Comments(22)
hulla baloo
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8:00am Fri 26 Oct 12
An alternative to chicken in breadcrumbs?
Over the Edge
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8:24am Fri 26 Oct 12
Linesman
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10:30am Fri 26 Oct 12
nedscrumpo
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10:31am Fri 26 Oct 12
bazzeroz
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10:56am Fri 26 Oct 12
Linesman
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12:01pm Fri 26 Oct 12
bazzeroz wrote:One of your rasher posts.
Makes you want to 'spit'. Porky scratchings, yum, yum.
The Good Ship Hardy
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12:13pm Fri 26 Oct 12
Sir Ad E Noid
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12:24pm Fri 26 Oct 12
earth mum
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1:01pm Fri 26 Oct 12
Over the Edge
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1:01pm Fri 26 Oct 12
Graeme Harrison
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1:44pm Fri 26 Oct 12
earth mum wrote:'persecuted for peoples (sic) greed'
I thought I'd ventured across a comedy website when I read these comments but then I realised that the brutal slaughter of 100 healthy animals was being laughed at, by the usual, narrow minded sick individuals who think their lives are more important than that of any others with a heartbeat. I have no tears for people who work in animal farming, my only sadness lies with the animals that will be persecuted for peoples greed!
They're being persecuted (and rightly so) on account of being delicious.
Subject48
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2:44pm Fri 26 Oct 12
I dont know how to break this to you...
So.. Im just going to say this.
Humans eat other animals!!! :O
Linesman
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2:45pm Fri 26 Oct 12
earth mum wrote:As you appear to lack a sense of humour, I doubt that you would recognise a comedy website if you should stumble across it.
I thought I'd ventured across a comedy website when I read these comments but then I realised that the brutal slaughter of 100 healthy animals was being laughed at, by the usual, narrow minded sick individuals who think their lives are more important than that of any others with a heartbeat. I have no tears for people who work in animal farming, my only sadness lies with the animals that will be persecuted for peoples greed!
It may come as a shock to you, but these pigs were reared with the intention that they would be slaughtered, not to be pets that would curl up on the settee alongside their owners.
My betting is that you are also a vegetarian who thinks that cows, pigs and sheep are in fields just to make the countryside look pretty. If we were all vegetarians, there would be no cows, pigs or sheep.
Fieldbean
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6:29pm Fri 26 Oct 12
Linesman wrote:Few people eat horse meat in the UK, but out in the New Forest, oh look lots of horses. What a completely daft idea that the animals would end up extinct!
earth mum wrote:As you appear to lack a sense of humour, I doubt that you would recognise a comedy website if you should stumble across it.
I thought I'd ventured across a comedy website when I read these comments but then I realised that the brutal slaughter of 100 healthy animals was being laughed at, by the usual, narrow minded sick individuals who think their lives are more important than that of any others with a heartbeat. I have no tears for people who work in animal farming, my only sadness lies with the animals that will be persecuted for peoples greed!
It may come as a shock to you, but these pigs were reared with the intention that they would be slaughtered, not to be pets that would curl up on the settee alongside their owners.
My betting is that you are also a vegetarian who thinks that cows, pigs and sheep are in fields just to make the countryside look pretty. If we were all vegetarians, there would be no cows, pigs or sheep.
Inform Al
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7:29pm Fri 26 Oct 12
Fieldbean wrote:Horses are used for other purposes, whereas pigs provide meat and cows and goats meat and milk. I doubt there would be any left if they were competing for our only source of food supply.
Linesman wrote:Few people eat horse meat in the UK, but out in the New Forest, oh look lots of horses. What a completely daft idea that the animals would end up extinct!
earth mum wrote:As you appear to lack a sense of humour, I doubt that you would recognise a comedy website if you should stumble across it.
I thought I'd ventured across a comedy website when I read these comments but then I realised that the brutal slaughter of 100 healthy animals was being laughed at, by the usual, narrow minded sick individuals who think their lives are more important than that of any others with a heartbeat. I have no tears for people who work in animal farming, my only sadness lies with the animals that will be persecuted for peoples greed!
It may come as a shock to you, but these pigs were reared with the intention that they would be slaughtered, not to be pets that would curl up on the settee alongside their owners.
My betting is that you are also a vegetarian who thinks that cows, pigs and sheep are in fields just to make the countryside look pretty. If we were all vegetarians, there would be no cows, pigs or sheep.
Reality-man
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8:28pm Fri 26 Oct 12
Reality-man
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8:29pm Fri 26 Oct 12
Reality-man
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8:30pm Fri 26 Oct 12
sameoldscene
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9:44pm Fri 26 Oct 12
Linesman
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10:52pm Fri 26 Oct 12
Fieldbean wrote:They do on the continent, and that is where a lot of New Forest ponies end up.
Linesman wrote:Few people eat horse meat in the UK, but out in the New Forest, oh look lots of horses. What a completely daft idea that the animals would end up extinct!
earth mum wrote:As you appear to lack a sense of humour, I doubt that you would recognise a comedy website if you should stumble across it.
I thought I'd ventured across a comedy website when I read these comments but then I realised that the brutal slaughter of 100 healthy animals was being laughed at, by the usual, narrow minded sick individuals who think their lives are more important than that of any others with a heartbeat. I have no tears for people who work in animal farming, my only sadness lies with the animals that will be persecuted for peoples greed!
It may come as a shock to you, but these pigs were reared with the intention that they would be slaughtered, not to be pets that would curl up on the settee alongside their owners.
My betting is that you are also a vegetarian who thinks that cows, pigs and sheep are in fields just to make the countryside look pretty. If we were all vegetarians, there would be no cows, pigs or sheep.
I did not say that they would be extinct, they would probably be on show in a zoo.
Why would a farmer want to keep cows, pigs and sheep if they are not sent for slaughter?
How could they afford to feed and keep them if they did not make money?
Cows produce milk, but the return on milk does not cover the cost of keeping the cow.
A pig produces nothing.
A sheep produces wool, but that is a bye-product, and by itself would not cover the the cost of keeping it.
freefinker
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11:39pm Fri 26 Oct 12
Inform Al wrote:They ARE already "competing for our only source of food supply" - and it would be more equitable for the planet's 7 million Homo sapiens if we actually directly ate the crops we grow rather than feeding most of the world’s crop production to farm animals for a very poor calorific and nutritional return.
Fieldbean wrote:Horses are used for other purposes, whereas pigs provide meat and cows and goats meat and milk. I doubt there would be any left if they were competing for our only source of food supply.
Linesman wrote:Few people eat horse meat in the UK, but out in the New Forest, oh look lots of horses. What a completely daft idea that the animals would end up extinct!
earth mum wrote:As you appear to lack a sense of humour, I doubt that you would recognise a comedy website if you should stumble across it.
I thought I'd ventured across a comedy website when I read these comments but then I realised that the brutal slaughter of 100 healthy animals was being laughed at, by the usual, narrow minded sick individuals who think their lives are more important than that of any others with a heartbeat. I have no tears for people who work in animal farming, my only sadness lies with the animals that will be persecuted for peoples greed!
It may come as a shock to you, but these pigs were reared with the intention that they would be slaughtered, not to be pets that would curl up on the settee alongside their owners.
My betting is that you are also a vegetarian who thinks that cows, pigs and sheep are in fields just to make the countryside look pretty. If we were all vegetarians, there would be no cows, pigs or sheep.
You obviously know very little of the economics of the industrialised agribusiness that has taken over farming in the past century – to the detriment of our health, the animals wellbeing and the planetary environment.
freefinker says...
7:49am Fri 26 Oct 12