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Dead pigs by the thousands float down Chinese river
LA Times ^ | March 11, 2013, 8:19 a.m. | Barbara Demick

Posted on 03/11/2013 8:46:23 AM PDT by Pan_Yan

Thousands of dead pigs have been found in the Huangpu River since last week. A report on the Chinese news portal Xinmin.cn, said that 3,323 dead pigs had been found through Sunday night.

Shanghai authorities said they believed flotilla of pigs came from neighboring Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and had been dumped in the river after they died. More than 20,000 pigs are reported to have died since the beginning of this year in Jiaxing alone, where a pig breeding facility is located about 50 miles to the west of Shanghai at the upper reaches of the Huangpu River. Some of the pigs had ear tags identifying them as coming from Jiaxing.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; pigs
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To: AnAmericanAbroad
That’s a pretty good-sized die-off, 3,000 pigs.

The article says 20,000 since the beginning of the year. They've *only* found 3,000 in the river.

21 posted on 03/11/2013 10:05:10 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

Wish they could make better use of the carcasses, like burying them in Muzzie graveyard.


22 posted on 03/11/2013 10:06:19 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Pan_Yan

DROWNED PIG - Main ingredient in pet food packaged for American companies. Label will read: Variety of meat

I would not be surprised if it is also found in human food products.


23 posted on 03/11/2013 10:06:36 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever ((Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord!))
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To: Pan_Yan

Hoping to see thousands of Chinese Communist corpses floating down the Yangze some day soon.


24 posted on 03/11/2013 10:07:12 AM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: Pan_Yan
Sounds like Jesus has been in the area.

Legion, was that you jumping into the river?

25 posted on 03/11/2013 10:07:26 AM PDT by stboz
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To: Pan_Yan

That would be a little too heavy on the “sour” part of sweet and sour pork.


26 posted on 03/11/2013 10:13:18 AM PDT by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: Pan_Yan

They’re just marinating.


27 posted on 03/11/2013 10:15:06 AM PDT by Moltke ("I am Dr. Sonderborg," he said, "and I don't want any nonsense.")
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To: SgtHooper

Ew.


28 posted on 03/11/2013 10:17:31 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

Sanitation workers salvage dead pigs from the Hengliaojing Creek in Shanghai's suburban Songjiang district Sunday. The creek flows into the upper reach of the Huangpu River, a source of the city's drinking water. Photo: Yang Hui/GT

29 posted on 03/11/2013 10:18:57 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Pan_Yan

They are fishing the pigs out to put into pet food.


30 posted on 03/11/2013 10:19:48 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Obama's vision - No Job is a Good Job)
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To: VeniVidiVici

Very likely so. For many years, rendering trucks would pick up dead animals and grind em up for feed of some sort.


31 posted on 03/11/2013 10:26:11 AM PDT by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: TexasCajun

“It’s OK fellas, I’m not good with chop sticks either.”

“I no touchy with 3 meter pole!”

“Yyin, what are you doing? Put in other end.”


32 posted on 03/11/2013 10:48:14 AM PDT by haffast (Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. -Abe Lincoln)
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To: null and void

“Swine flu?” Swine can’t flew cause unlike buffafloe they have no wings and pigs can’t fly even if they can flee the flu to avoid the flue and fleas.


33 posted on 03/11/2013 11:02:52 AM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: count-your-change

Diane Feinswine flies on the taxpayer’s dime...


34 posted on 03/11/2013 11:07:08 AM PDT by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable tyranny.)
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To: wetgundog
Hoping to see thousands of Chinese Communist corpses floating down the Yangze some day soon.

Not sure there are thousands of Communists remaining in China. Hundreds, maybe. ;)

35 posted on 03/11/2013 11:32:59 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: null and void; Jeff Chandler

So I wonder? If this were the Potomac, would anyone notice? Or care????


36 posted on 03/11/2013 6:23:04 PM PDT by bigheadfred
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