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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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posted on
03/11/2013 8:46:23 AM PDT
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Pan_Yan
To: Pan_Yan
Look at the bright side, Chinese meat packers are doing a brisk business with low overhead.
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posted on
03/11/2013 8:50:08 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Pan_Yan
Special on bacon - aisle 7!!
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posted on
03/11/2013 8:50:28 AM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
To: Pan_Yan
Failed Guinness Record attempt at worlds largest “hot pot?”
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posted on
03/11/2013 8:51:34 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: Pan_Yan
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posted on
03/11/2013 8:54:10 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?)
To: Pan_Yan
Perfect place to waterboard muzzies!!
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posted on
03/11/2013 8:55:04 AM PDT
by
albie
(re)
To: Jeff Chandler; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; ...
Swine flu? Could be...
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
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posted on
03/11/2013 8:57:02 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable tyranny.)
To: Jeff Chandler
"Dead pigs by the thousands float down Chinese river""Swine flu?"
No... Swine "Float"...
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posted on
03/11/2013 8:57:09 AM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: Jeff Chandler
Swine flew?
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posted on
03/11/2013 8:57:14 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?)
To: Pan_Yan
These people need more environmentalists & PETA activists. I suggest we send them ours!
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posted on
03/11/2013 8:59:39 AM PDT
by
Twotone
(Marte Et Clypeo)
To: Pan_Yan
Might make a good swimming place for Muslim Jihadists.
To: Pan_Yan
at least one pig tested had died of porcine circovirus type 2, but that the virus did not present a risk to human health or threaten the drinking water.Hogwash!
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posted on
03/11/2013 9:07:04 AM PDT
by
bgill
To: Twotone
Where do we send our contributions for air fare?
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posted on
03/11/2013 9:07:58 AM PDT
by
rktman
(BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST MR. PRESIDENT!(not that we'd get the truth!))
To: Pan_Yan
It must not be “the year of the pig”...
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posted on
03/11/2013 9:09:21 AM PDT
by
NEMDF
To: Twotone
These people need more environmentalists & PETA activists. I suggest we send them ours!
A most excellent idea!
To: Pan_Yan
Maybe they are killing off pigs in an attempt to raise prices like FDR tried....
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posted on
03/11/2013 9:30:15 AM PDT
by
GraceG
To: Pan_Yan
It’s bad enough that the carcasses landed in the river...but I’d like to know the cause of the pig die-off. Wonder if it is the next swine flu gearing up to hit us....
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posted on
03/11/2013 9:34:35 AM PDT
by
TEXOKIE
(We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
To: TEXOKIE
Headline NY Slimes, “Maxwell the Geico pig has gone missing”
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posted on
03/11/2013 9:37:16 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Got a problem? Nothing a drone strike can't fix.)
To: Mad Dawgg
NEW! BACON FLAVORED WATER! HEALTHY AND DELICIOUS!*
*=these claims have not be evaluated. The manufacturer is not responsible for consumers contracting swine flu, trichinosis, etc.
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posted on
03/11/2013 9:50:18 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
To: TEXOKIE
That thought occurred to me as well. That’s a pretty good-sized die-off, 3,000 pigs.
Yeech.
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posted on
03/11/2013 9:52:33 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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