Martin Vander Weyer Martin Vander Weyer

How to solve the looming pigs-in-blankets crisis

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issue 04 September 2021

This is getting serious. Never mind global shortages of microchips, plastics, copper and container ships; now we’re running out of pigs in blankets. The British Meat Processing Association says its members are so understaffed that annual production of 40 million packs of this popular pork item for the Christmas market is under threat.

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