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Winnie helps farmers hog limelight
6:34pm Tuesday 4th March 2008
A campaigning Oxfordshire porker trotted into Downing Street today to highlight what has been described as a crisis threatening the pig industry.
Winnie the Pig, a veteran of a similar campaign in 2001from Vitality Farm, in Shillingford Road, Wallingford, joined the Pigs are Worth It! rally outside Number 10.
Campaigners, who have the backing of Gordon Ramsay and other celebrity chefs, have said farmers lose about £26 for every pig sold for slaughter in the UK. They blame soaring wholesale grain costs, which have doubled in the past year.
A 10,000-signature petition organised by the National Pig Association will also be delivered to Number 10 calling for help for the industry.
Owner Marianne Hill said: "Pig farmers are angry."
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Allotmet occupier, Botley Road says...
7:56pm Wed 5 Mar 08
Methinks it is bacon roll time!
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DanOxford and the residents of, Royston Vasey Formelly known as Oxford says...
8:04pm Tue 4 Mar 08
When are ordinary people going to take a stand.
What's the betting this photo will upset Moslems and we'll have suicide bombings on our hands?!!