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As they normally would. these pigs are backing up on farms to the tune of around 70,000, and that s increasing by 15,000 a week. the impact is on the welfare of those animals that are kept on farms and also on the profitability of the farmers looking after those animals. food industry trade bodies say there s now a chronic labour shortage across the whole supply chain. this business grows imports and distributes fresh fruit and veg. there s everything here from carrots to pomegranates and a lot of it ends up in high street restaurants, but here at this distribution centre they re 20% short of staff. the boss says a real crisis is brewing. it s going to get worse before it gets better, definitely. - and what the whole industry is really concerned - about is from september, i when the schools come back and the office workers come back, i and we re going to start seeing more supermarket shelves empty, restaurant plates empty. - and then the big concern ongoing ....
Other areas of food production are also having problems. a shortage of meat processors has caused a backlog of pigs on farms. the government is basically saying that furlough is coming to an end at the end of september so you can have all of those people and that will resolve your issues. now, those people aren t living in areas where the manufacturing plants are, they don t have the right skills, and i suspect a lot of them wouldn t want to go and work in food manufacturing plants. food industry trade bodies warn there is now a chronic labour shortage across the whole supply chain. this business grows, imports and distributes fresh fruit and veg. there is everything here from carrots to pomegranates, and a lot of it ends up in high street restaurants. but here at this distribution centre, they are 20% short of staff. we are definitely going to start seeing more supermarket shelves empty, restaurant plates empty. ....
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Living in areas where the manufacturing plants are, they don t have the right skills, and i suspect a lot of them wouldn t want to go and work in food manufacturing plants. food industry trade bodies warn there s now a chronic labour shortage across the whole supply chain. this business grows, imports and distributes fresh fruit and veg. there s everything here from carrots to pomegranates, and a lot of it ends up in high street restaurants. but here at this distribution centre, they re 20% short of staff. we are definitely going to start seeing more i supermarket shelves empty, restaurant plates empty. - and then, the big concern- ongoing from that is christmas. he supports calls for a temporary visa scheme to bring in food workers and lorry drivers from europe. isn t it more important to build a sustainable workforce from within the uk, and ultimately pay them more? i m more than happy to do that. but if the era of cheap labour is over, so tool is the era of cheap food. ....