Being a pig farmer can be tough and lonely

In times of Covid-19, hardly anybody gave it any thought what it must have been like for all those pig producers who were faced with their houses full of pigs and nowhere to go. In her first contribution as columnist, Dr Irene Camerlink touches on a sensitive subject: what can producers do to move on? When newspapers give full attention to the number of Covid-19 cases, some of its huge consequences are kept silent. The closure of several large slaughterhouses worldwide due to Covid-19 infection