While protests might be slowing down cattle throughput, Larry Goodman’s ABP group is still going full steam ahead inside the factory gates, hiring meat boners. The job announcement was made in tandem with the release of 300 work permits specifically for meat boners from non-EU countries. But it might give some farmers food for thought, given the salary of €27,500 per annum is an awful lot more than the average suckler farmer makes.

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