Posted on 05/15/2019 10:16:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
* China is grappling with a widespread African swine flu (ASF) epidemic, a disease fatal to pigs but harmless to humans.
* ASF's effects on pigs are gruesome. Symptoms include diarrhea, depression, and miscarriages.
* The government is urging farmers to cull infected pigs to prevent the spread of the disease, which is in turn dramatically decreasing the country's pork production.
* Dutch bank Rabobank estimates that the country will kill 150 million to 200 million pigs — or one third of the country's supply — this year.
* China is the world's largest pork producer and consumer. The steep fall in pork production in China and likely rise in Chinese demand will likely drive up global pork prices, researchers say.
China is expected to kill about a third of all pigs in the country this year due to an outbreak of the gruesome and incurable disease, African swine flu (ASF), which will likely drive up pork prices around the world.
African swine flu has spread to almost every province in mainland China since Beijing's agriculture ministry confirmed the first outbreak in the northeastern Liaoning province, which borders North Korea, in August 2018.
The disease, which is deadly to pigs but harmless in humans, has since spread to the southern Chinese island of Hainan as well as to other Asian countries like Vietnam, Cambodia, and Mongolia, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Some 1.02 million pigs have been culled in China so far in an effort to prevent the spread of the disease, China's agriculture ministry reported last month.
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Hilarious
The farmer is nuts. Hog prices are up something like 40% since last summer, and up 10+% from a year ago.
Cat’s in the kettle at the Peking Moon. Meow.
Never eat anything from China.
Hog virus pushes China to increase U.S. pork purchases despite trade war
I always try to avoid any food products of any kind from PR China.
They’ll pay the tariffs on pork now that’s for sure.
People have to stop worrying about trade with China. We (the west) import a bunch of stuff from them because it is cheaper. We can make EVERYTHING they now export to us. We don't need them to survive. I'm not sure they can say the same thing. They are not self sufficient in petroleum or ag products. Energy and food are kind of important.
That guy (farmer) is either an idiot, has lousy sales representation, or is just a bs’r. Pork prices are up, and (it’s a global market) shortages are going to get worse. A lot worse. Other countries (exporter)s will sell to China, opening up new opportunities for US exports. And, in this “connected age”, it doesn’t take years to develop new market opportunities. Not for anyone on the ball, anyway.
We do import some processed pork from China, but there is absolutely no NEED to, and, in fact, since the virus can be spread by contaminated pork products, quarantines on affected regions are past being in order. Chinese-heritage people in the US can process pork for “Asian” food just as well as Chinese in China, and almost certainly a lot more safely to consumers, too.
“What, it tastes different? Well, in the US they won’t let us add the stuff that hit the floor and aged for a day...”
The problem is that if WE are reading about it in the Business Insider, it is old news. The commodity is already up due to speculation from traders who knew about this a long time ago. It is like what we say on the trading floor:
if you read about it in the Wall Street Journal do the opposite.
So Sorry, no pork lo mein for you!
Interesting. This report was on Fox, and was unquestionably an intentional slam on “Trump’s tariffs”. I, like I assume many of those watching, hadn’t a clue regarding the current hog market.
Blatant fake news!
“No Char Sui for you!!” (The Pork Nazi sez)
How did he feel when this Carrier factory closed and 1,400 lost their livelihood?
[ASF’s effects on pigs are gruesome. Symptoms include diarrhea, depression, and miscarriages. ]
Must have figured out what was going to happen to them.
A woke pig.
The deadliest flu epidemics are caused by animal-human flu hybrids.
These develop where humans and animals live in close proximity and their respective flu strains can swap DNA.
The 1918 Flu was a human flu-swine flu hybrid now thought to have originated in China, and brought to Canada by Chinese laborers during WWI.
Time to fill the Freezer before prices jump if not too late...
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