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Jeremy Clarkson broke down in tears in an emotional episode of Clarkson's Farm after he was left with no choice but to send his pigs to the abattoir. The presenter is back once again for the fifth series of life on Diddly Squat Farm with the first four episodes released on Prime Video on Wednesday. Yet tragically Jeremy is faced with the realisation that his prized pigs aren't making him enough money as he is forced to send the majority of them to the abattoir. The rare-breed Oxford Sandy and Blacks pigs don't produce as much meat as he would have hoped after the butcher explains they are too fatty. Sounding depleted, Jeremy said: 'All that effort, and we've got sausages,' as the butcher replied: 'Very nice sausages I might add, very expensive sausages to produce.'Coming to the conclusion that the pigs aren't profitable, Jeremy added: 'It's loss making then that really isn't it? S**t.' Jeremy Clarkson broke down in tears after sending his pigs to the abattoir as he was consoled by his girlfriend Lisa Hogan on the new series of Clarkson's Farm released on Wednesday Coming to the conclusion that the pigs aren't profitable after the butcher explained their meet was too fatty, Jeremy added: 'It's loss making then that really isn't it? S**t'Jeremy and girlfriend Lisa Hogan have been breeding the pigs for a number of years now, and the star was left in tears as he bid them an emotional goodbye. 'They make my heart sing, I'm so happy with them. But we're running a business here and they make no financial sense at all,' he explained. While he made the heartbreaking decision to send the majority to an abattoir, two of them, Clumsy and Swizz, have instead been sent to live on an educational farm. Jeremy added: 'I couldn't really have handled it if they'd gone off to be eaten.'Saying goodbye to his porky friends, he filled up with tears and rubbed his eyes as Lisa came over to give him a big hug and console him. It isn't the first time the pigs have caused Jeremy heartbreak after he was also left in tears during series three when his beloved piglets 'died in alarming numbers'.Jeremy addressed the 'horrific' breeding tragedy at the time, as he said: 'It was just a heartbreaking time. I've never, ever seen Lisa cry — not once, ever since that all started and was unfolding. It was terrible.'It is weird, because you love them and you help birth them and you feed and nurture and care for them. I mean, you don't say, "Let's buy some pigs and hope they die".'Jeremy went onto explain how he has had a real soft spot for pigs since he was a child.He continued: 'My mother always used to buy me toy pigs every Christmas and birthday into my twenties, and I thought it would be fun to have them — then they all just died in alarming numbers. While he made the heartbreaking decision to send the majority to an abattoir, two of them, Clumsy and Swizz, have instead been sent to live on an educational farm'It was absolutely horrific at the time, and we had another calamity with them just the other day, but by and large they're now going OK.'We're getting more robust now, though — we're a bit stronger at dealing with it.'Opening up about the scenes, Lisa added: 'It was heart-breaking. Jeremy's always loved pigs, I didn’t think I’d be that enamoured by pigs but I did get really close to them as people will see. Farming’s just sad.'The animals become your friends and you're isolated – there are certain farms that are really isolated – and the animals become your family. When they become unwell, you're losing members of your animal family.'If that's how sad we can get in front of a TV crew, imagine the farmers that are alone and having to do it with nobody around them when they’re losing animal after animal. It’s so difficult.'Every day it's emotional whether it's really happy because the weather is perfect and you can get on with the job at hand or it’s miserable if it’s raining the crops are failing and you can’t do a thing.'It’s very difficult to be unemotional about it. So, yes, I don’t want to go against what he’s said but I definitely think he’s becoming more a man of the land than a man of the road.'
