This could deter the Chicoms from slapping retaliatory tariffs on U.S. agricultural products.
Agreed. There's nothing more gruesome than a postpartum-depressed, bereaved pig who's sh*tting everywhere.
...how can they tell?
By comparison, the US has about 70+ million hogs at any one time, and produces around 150 million hogs per year.
About 25% of US pork is exported. Mexico and Japan are largest export markets for US pork.
“I guess vegetarians, Vegans, and those who eat Kosher and Halal don’t have to worry about this”
Yes, except ....http://theawkwardyeti.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/awkward-yeti-food-poisoning1.png
Sounds like we need to save China’s bacon.
They were just interviewing a hog Farmer on Fox News a few days ago. He was complaining about the tariffs, saying that it was killing him. Apparently China is a major importer of delicious pigs from America. What a coincidence, that Chinese pigs would get sick at at this crucial juncture when our farmers really need to sell their pigs!
Jusr brand it Halal and sell as veal to the muzzies.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
This probably won’t make much of an impact on Sinkiang Province, where, for obvious reasons, few pigs are likely to be found.
Cat’s in the kettle at the Peking Moon. Meow.
They’ll pay the tariffs on pork now that’s for sure.
[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...
Forty five years ago African swine flu (ASF) was in Cuba. The US was trying to get Mexico to stop imports of pork from Cuba as they were worried the disease might get into the USA.
To put into proper perspective, 1/3 of China’s slaughter-ready hogs will be killed and buried. According to a poster on SCMP.com, all the slaughter-ready hogs in the world does not equal the # of hogs China will kill and bury in the next 12-18 months.
Just when pork is about the only affordable meat. :(
I suggested to my husband we raise a hog, but he vetoed the idea. (We live on a 55’x 150’ city lot).
