{"id":757796,"date":"2019-07-23T08:14:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T12:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=757796"},"modified":"2019-07-23T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T14:00:09","slug":"apocalypse-now-china-planning-to-kill-128-million-pigs-in-order-to-contain-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=757796","title":{"rendered":"IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG: China planning to KILL 128 MILLION PIGS in order to contain disease"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>In the 'Year of the Pig', the latest Chinese government predictions point to a culling of pigs equivalent to the entire European Union\u2019s annual supply.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BLOOMBERG NEWS:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;An infectious disease has killed tens of thousands of pigs in China, which raises about half the world\u2019s hogs. Worse still, stopping its spread has resulted in the culling of millions more, including breeding sows and piglets&#8230; \u201cSome farms slaughtered their entire herds and gave up breeding for fear of infection,\u201d said farmer Dou Xingyong. In some cases, farms were prohibited from raising pigs because of stricter waste-treatment requirements, he said&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>African swine fever has continued to spread, albeit at a slower pace than at the end of 2018. The Tibet and Xinjiang regions, where pork isn\u2019t widely consumed, confirmed outbreaks in early April, highlighting what Han Changfu, China\u2019s minister of agriculture and rural affairs, described Monday as a \u201ccomplicated and grim situation\u201d in arresting the virus&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Latest government predictions point to a loss of swine this year equivalent to the European Union\u2019s annual supply. Zhao, 67, doesn\u2019t see affected farms recovering anytime soon&#8230; According to Ma Chuang, deputy secretary general with Chinese Association of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine. He estimates the total hog population may drop by as much as 30 percent in the \u201cyear of the pig\u201d from 2018 &#8212; a loss of about 128 million head&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cThe global market won\u2019t have enough pork to supply China,\u201d Ma said Tuesday in an interview in Beijing. \u201cThe deficit won\u2019t be filled even with poultry or other meats.\u201d African swine fever may prompt a dietary shift to alternative protein-rich foods, such as eggs and dairy, Ma said. 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