I read that too - the ChiCom gov't doesn't pay the farmers for their loss, so in turn they dig them back up and sell what they can.
Unlike kim chee, they don't let it ferment.
The other problem is that this disease infects birds, as well as pigs. 1918 all over again. Flies - especially blow flies - also carry this new disease. So if a truck picks up a load of dead pigs or birds (birds they tend to merely dispose of in LAKES (??????)), the flies get on the carcasses and then spread the disease.
To me, the genie is out of the bottle.
After reading this thread the Pork Roast we were going to have for dinner is now going into the freezer.......