The Canadian Press: Ottawa to pay struggling pork producers $50 million to kill 150,000 pigs by fall

The Canadian Press: Ottawa to pay struggling pork producers $50 million to kill 150,000 pigs by fall: "EDMONTON — In what is being called an unprecedented move, the federal government will pay Canadian pork producers $50 million to kill off 150,000 of their pigs by the fall as the industry teeters on the brink of economic collapse.

The animals are being destroyed at slaughter plants and on pig farms in a bid to cull the swine breeding herd by 10 per cent."