Posted on 04/04/2019 10:03:00 AM PDT by LucyT
An absolutely devastating disease is wiping out herds of pigs all over Asia, and most people in the western world don’t even realize what is happening. Since it was first detected last August, there have been 116 officially reported outbreaks of African Swine Fever in China, and since that time it has rapidly spread to surrounding nations such as Cambodia and Vietnam.
African Swine Fever is not harmful to humans, but the vast majority of the pigs that catch it end up dead. It spreads very quickly and there is no cure, and this outbreak has already driven global pork prices through the roof.
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Food Crisis 2019: An Outbreak Of African Swine Fever Is Devastating The Global Pig Population, And Pork Prices Are Skyrocketing
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From Ebola to Swine Fever, nothing good comes out of Africa.
The Chinese will now try to smuggle this swine flu pathogen into the US. Just IMHO.
Who Cares?
PING
Muzzys hurt most.../sarc
...From Ebola to Swine Fever, nothing good comes out of Africa.
Not to mention involuntary immigrants
Who cares? Who cares!l??? If the price of my bacon goes up, I guarantee I will care. Big pork might be behind this
I'll bet my life savings that ALL the pigs that DON'T catch it end up dead too!
I’ll bet my life savings that ALL the pigs that DON’T catch it end up dead too!
That is a pretty bold statement Cotton, let’s that your strategy pays off with bacon as an end result.
What is it about the swine flu that kills te pigs? Dehydration? Pneumonia?
Try Beef Bacon.
Or Cat Bacon.
Or Llama Bacon.
If we are not supposed to eat ‘em, they wouldn’t be made out of Bacon!
I don’t know who this “Cotton” is, but that pay-off in bacon you mentioned sounds pretty good to me.
Anti-vaxers in 3...2...1
We should all care. This time next year when prices get way out of control.
Australia just had hundreds of thousands of cattle die off in massive flooding.
The US Plains have lost untold millions of bushels of grain/crops/livestock due to massive flooding.
Swine fever if pigs.
Dairy Farms folding and filing bankruptcy by the hundreds so far in 2019.
The Agriculture and Food Production Industry worldwide is getting hammered this year.
Yes, it's a virus.
It causes dehydration, fever, and lethargy.
Highly contagious among domestic pigs, wild pigs and boars.
China, the largest consumer of pork products,
reports a 15% decline in breeding sows so far this year, down from just last year.
And that 15% decline is just what they admit to.
African swine fever (ASF) is a highly contagious disease manifesting clinical symptoms of haemorrhagic fever
caused by African swine fever virus (ASFV) and leads to almost 100% mortality in domestic pigs.
The highly contagious disease, which is incurable in pigs but harmless to humans,
has spread rapidly across neighboring China since August, and has been found in seven areas in Vietnam,
the state-run Vietnam News Service reported.
"China’s pig herd fell 13 percent in January compared with the same month a year earlier,
while the number of breeding sows was down 15 percent from the previous year,
according to data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs."
So, the number of sows is already reduced, limiting the prospects of a pork recovery.
China raises and consumes far more pigs than anyone else in the world, and it is also the epicenter of this crisis.
China once had a population of 430 million pigs, and taking 13 percent of that number would give us a total of 55.9 million pigs that have been lost.
Global food prices are never going to be lower than they are at this moment,
and now is the time to get prepared for more unstable times ahead.
Here in the U.S., the recent flooding is going to have an enormous impact on U.S. agricultural production this year.
Consider the physical loss of cattle and other livestock during the recent flooding in the midwest.
Also, of serious concern is the loss of grains and other feed materials for cattle
as well as the impact of corn-ALCOHOL on the gasoline/ fuel industry.
OODA Loop (?)
All we need is one evil bastard to come across our border carrying a sample and apply for a job at a piggery.
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