There were still petrol stations without fuel on Friday in Britain

After a chaotic week, when British drivers bought fuel in stock in a panic, there were still a large number of petrol stations without fuel on Friday, although the British government is reassuring that the situation is improving. However, representatives of the sector concerned point out that there are still about 2,000 service stations without fuel and that, according to Reuters, several dozen pumps are closed in London and southern England alone. Another warning to the government comes from pig farmers that Brexit has caused a shortage of staff in slaughterhouses and threatens to kill more than 100,000 pigs in the short term if things do not change quickly. As a result of fuel delivery problems, the British government announced at the end of last week that it planned to issue temporary visas for 5,000 foreign truck drivers and 5,500 employees in the poultry industry, Reuters reported. However, the government has not indicated any plans for other sectors. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and several ministers in the labor-struggling sector have said they should look for British workers to raise wages and improve working conditions. However, according to farmers, there is a risk that up to 150,000 pigs will be forced to be killed due to a lack of butchers and slaughterhouse workers. According to the head of the British National Farmers' Union, Minette Batters, if the government does not issue visas for foreign workers in this sector, there is a risk that "within a week or 10 days it will be necessary to kill about 150,000 pigs directly on farms." According to Batters, 43% of seats are vacant in the field of meat processing. There is also a large number of seasonal workers on farms or drivers. Similarly, Lizzie Wilson of the Pig Breeders' Association said a lack of staff in the sector has forced meat processing companies to significantly reduce production capacity. As a result, the animals whose meat was already supposed to be in the retail network are still on the farms, which causes problems in maintaining welfare, ie animal welfare. "There are currently about 120,000 pigs on the farms, whose meat should have been in shops or households," Wilson said. She added that they are getting to the point where they are forced to inform the government that if they do not help them quickly, they will be forced to kill these animals on farms, as there will be no other option. She pointed out that the current crisis was also being felt by consumers, as processors had restricted the supply of individual pork products to shops.