41.   Initial investigations suggested that unscrupulous mainland pig farmers fed the drug, also banned in the mainland, to their livestock to reduce body fat for better marketing.

42.   Later, Janiszewski announced the government would intervene next week to purchase Polish pork in order to give pig farmers higher prices.

43.   Lim said Johor pig farmers had to face adverse competition from other States, where the use of the stimulant was common.

44.   Many pig farmers, however, have refused to abandon their pigs or allow them to be slaughtered without compensation.

45.   Reached by telephone, other pig farmers told similar stories.

46.   Some pig farmers are past caring.

47.   Talking sausage-making with butchers or fielding grievances from pig farmers lent an air of pathos to his arduous grassroots campaign.

48.   The government agreed to start buying pork as of Monday to push up prices for pig farmers, meeting a key union demand.

49.   The pig farmers and pork processors hope the free meal win back consumers, some of whom are switching to chicken and fish.

50.   The pig farmers were blamed for failing to contain the disease.