A report calls for a relaxation on requirements to speak English, and to expand seasonal worker visas.
A lack of skilled abattoir workers has led to tens of thousands of pigs being incinerated - rather than entering the food chain.
MPs want ministers to ease English language rules for skilled workers, and expand the seasonal worker visa scheme. A lack of skilled butchers and abattoir workers meant some 35,000 pigs destined to be made into sausages, bacon and chops were incinerated or rendered - reduced to lard. Neil Parish, chairman of the EFRA committee, said: "The government's attitude to the plight of food and farming workers was particularly disappointing."
The FDF's director of policy and corporate affairs, Jayne Almond, said: "Compounding the inflationary pressures on UK food and drink manufacturers, many businesses continue to struggle with systemic labour shortages."
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