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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12140, 30 December 1933, Page 12

WHITE or. black pigs? CONTROVERSY 'IN BRITAIN. A new \ storm has broken round unfortunate Pig Marketing Boaicl (says the London “News-Chronicle and all bccauso it prefers white pigs to b'ack—a '.pTdfbrenec shared. by Britain’s most noted pig-brooder, Mr. Lloyd* George. The board, (recently provided that “if any pig is. black Or. mainly black there shall be a deduction of Gd per score from' .the price which would have been paid had ' it been white. The p’g-breedefs/ of- Britain demanded the reason for this- ucav form of “colour bar.” The National Pig Breeders- Association ’ indignantly protested against the ■ hoard’s decis on on the chief grounds that: 1. —When breeders .of black pigs were asked, to vote in-favour of the pig marketing .scheme, they were not made aware of anv- proposal to penalise their breeds. , .9.—No logical reason has boon adduced for the. imposition or a penally and. the penalisation is both unjustifiable and unwarrantable. Air. Lloyd George- does not share the enthusiasm of. ids fed ovc pigbreeders. “,f discarded the: black p:g some tune ago, lie told the NeusC bronicie,”'“bn‘tlio'advice, of an expert of considerable standing. 1 was told that black pigs do not make good bacon. . may say,-”- be added, “that 1 have found thi advice profitab’e.’’ The Pig Breeders’, Associal on, however, intends to -prosecute vigorously its fight for -the ;black pig, and immediately- representations arc to be made io. tlfc Pig. Markethig Board, (ho Bacon Marketing Board, and tho Ministry" of Agriculture to provide, “equality -of 'status’’ in the pig world. ’ . .