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Dozens of pigs died or had to be put down after a lorry transporting the animals overturned during a road crash in North Yorkshire.
The lorry was carrying 200 pigs when it was in collision with another lorry and a car at 10:20 GMT.
A number of pigs escaped on to the road after the crash on the A59 Roman Road, near Upper Poppleton, police said.
Thirty-five of the animals either died in the accident or had to be put down by vets, police said.
A North Yorkshire Police spokeswoman said: "There were 200 pigs in the lorry which overturned and sadly 35 of them died or were euthanised.
"Two vets attended the incident along with the RSPCA, who oversaw the animals' welfare."
The A59 Boroughbridge Road was closed for some time while emergency services dealt with the scene and the highway was cleared.
The lorry was carrying 200 pigs when it was in collision with another lorry and a car at 10:20 GMT.
A number of pigs escaped on to the road after the crash on the A59 Roman Road, near Upper Poppleton, police said.
Thirty-five of the animals either died in the accident or had to be put down by vets, police said.
A North Yorkshire Police spokeswoman said: "There were 200 pigs in the lorry which overturned and sadly 35 of them died or were euthanised.
"Two vets attended the incident along with the RSPCA, who oversaw the animals' welfare."
The A59 Boroughbridge Road was closed for some time while emergency services dealt with the scene and the highway was cleared.
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The other 165 lived an hour or two longer.
200 pigs on a lorry! |
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Lots of photographs of the pigs being helped.
http://www.itv.com/news/2014-11-06/pig-lorry-overturns-after-crash-with-bread-lorry/ |
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kenny mann 08 Nov 14 18:04
The other 165 lived an hour or two longer. 200 pigs on a lorry! Sickening really, but I'll still be eating part of one later. I wish I wasn't such a f*cking hypocrite! |
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Fair enough if they're reared in the UK. Others aren't so lucky.
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I stopped eating meat after seeing a lorry with pigs on it all crammed. I thought poor sods and I've not had any meat since.
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slaughtering depots need to be nearer the farms imo ,a few round this way have closed over the years -and this is a major area - they shouldnt be subject to needless suffering otherwise esp on long journeys .very stressful
 Has to be said conditions at least in the UK seem a lot better than the old days - all the ones round here have space,natural daylight and mud pools as well as housing from the elements . far cry from the horrible concrete units and shackles employed only 20 years ago |
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Yes they seem to be Coach'. The dreadful sow stalls were banned some time ago, although some EU countries are flouting the law which resulted in the ban on stalls. So nobody (who cares about animal welfare) should buy bacon marked from EU countries imo.
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They can't all be that bad kenny?
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No they're not. I think around 5 of the 30 or so were still using stalls. I'll try and find out which ones still have a black mark against them.
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Good, 'cos I've got some Danepak in the fridge...
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Put it in the deep freeze till I've made my enquiries.
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You get what you pay for with bacon (and most meats). If you can afford it you will taste the difference, I can't always but when I do, It makes for a better sarnie!
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True. Most people couldn't care less where their meat's from, or how it has been treated unfortunately.
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on ethical grounds i have switched from eating pigs to cats .
rip the 200 |
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Ziff Meats was the name of a slaughterhouse in what was Beckton Road in Newham up to the late 1970s. Next door to it was Henson and Burbridge, who were meat processors.
The stench was facking awful, and if the wind was westward, it carried the smell 200 yards to to the housing estate where I lived as a kid. In the height of summer you'd never seen so many houses with all the windows closed. All the staff were Jamaicans and used to bet in our shop, and we had to spray the whole shop with air freshener after they went back to work after their dinner break. To this day I still have no idea where the nearest cattle farm was. There was a pig farm in East Ham Manor Way, but the abattoir only did cattle. |
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By and large cheap meat is a false economy. Just eat less of it less often. At the end of the day you are putting it in your body...
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rob - don't you realise you need meat to survive .
any meat - Iceland supreme value burgers will do - it's important or we could all waste away  - be careful about telling folk to eat meat less often 5x times a day is the minimum required in the UK ,something to do with Vitamin D and bone loss  |
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Vegetarians dont seem to die too young.
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not sure what age we fall off our perch
s'pose it's all do to with other factors like smoking ,genetics etc |
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vegetarians dont seem to unhealthy for me. Nor do they die younger.
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i think it must be the same either way - if there is a difference it's because veggies may take greater overall care of themselves - dunno .
i still say genetics is the biggest overall precursor unless you're a herion addict or something |
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alchohol and f@gs are the big killers .
being a gambler must be a negative as well . anyone done that when will i die site ? gives you a specific date . |
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I did one years ago. It was summat like 2054. I'd take the unders!
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29 Sep 2024. fu ck!
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Still, I woulda cleaned up on the spreads!
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Cause of death was 'shot by the pope's bodyguards' which seems unlikely.
http://www.deathtimer.com/index.php |
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I'm doing okay considering I've been dead since July 2006.
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What'd you do of TGM? Ugliness?
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Erm, die of.
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Erm, CMAT.
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Erm, can't remember, Easter.
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Erm, Mikael.
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