Pig protesters aim to keep the peace with hauliers
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• A new group of protesting pig formers which last week held up hauliers entering the port of Immingham has said it has no wish to trouble operators further. The British Pigs Support Group, which is highlighting the problem of cheaper, imported bacon and pork, says port-side discussions with hauliers were "purely for the cameras" as part of the group's campaign to improve the financial plight of domestic pig farmers. About 800 farmers demonstrated at Immingham in the first of a series of protests aimed at persuading supermarkets to highlight whether their meat is British or foreign. The assurance will be welcomed by hauliers, who have been targeted recently by angry Welsh beef farmers. "We have no axe to grind with anyone hauling the products and we don't want to upset anyone else's jobs,"says Digby Scott, spokesperson for the British Pigs Support Group.