Posted on 06/07/2019 6:52:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
China’s food supply is being imperiled as new reports warn that up to 50 percent of China’s 440 million pigs are now at risk from African Swine Fever infection.
The South China Morning Post reported that Chairman Chan Kin Yip of the Federation of Hong Kong Agricultural Associations claimed that Chinese mainland pig farmers told him African Swine Fever has spread to 30 percent of mainland pigs, while another Hong Kong pig farmer based in China told Yip the exposure rate is as high as 50 percent.
With $23.8 billion of agricultural imports from the U.S. in 2017, retaliatory tariffs directly aimed at President Trump’s rural voter base was expected to be China’s hammer to bludgeon the U.S. into abandoning its Trade War. Accounting for 17 percent of U.S. agricultural exports, Chinese customers were number one in soybeans; number two in pork and hay; number three in dairy and poultry; number four in beef, and number five in wheat.
First detected in August 2018, the raging pandemic of highly communicable African Swine Fever has spread to every mainland province and Hong Kong. The virus causes blackened lesions, diarrhea, abortion, respiratory illness, and then death in 7 to 10 days.
With production declines of -35 percent and prices spiking +40 percent, the disease is wreaking havoc on the China’s $128 billion a year pork industry. Although Beijing has encouraged the provinces to provide financial support to large-scale pig farms, the loss of sales and cost to cull up to 220 million infected pigs is a huge burden on the people.
The African Swine Fever has jumped the Chinese border to over 52 cities in Vietnam, leading to the culling of more than 2 million pigs.
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Man, oh man, China is sooooo treading the same path as 1930’s Japan.
They say that as if abortion is a bad thing? Oh wait, this applies only to pigs.
With nukes.
China’s food import restrictions are going to collapse if they have a major agriculture crisis. Over 1.3 billion people consume a lot of food and pork is by far the most consumed meat in China.
“As the largest pork consumer in the world, China’s per capita pork consumption reached 39.9 kg in 2018, while for chicken and beef, it was 8.3 kg and 6.1 kg respectively. The numerous outbreaks of ASF throughout the country not only caused a sharp drop in domestic sow and live pig inventories, but has also greatly dampened pork consumption in China.”
https://thepigsite.com/articles/what-does-2019-hold-for-chinas-pork-market
Brings US to border controls on livestock and what is happening on our southern border with Mexico.
Is this why China bought US company, Smithfield Hams?
Those Chinese sure seem to have a lot of money to spend buying weapons.
Maybe they should buy more food for their people.
Or, they could learn how to eat torpedoes.
The dog population in China is going to take a big hit!
The Trump curse strikes again.
I saw a YouTube documentary in which Chinese with the financial means greatly prefer imported food supplies over domestic due to simple food safety concerns. The antibiotic/hormone use in the domestic livestock industry is just unreal. Regulations are widely ignored.
Parallels between 1930’s Japan & Modern China:
1. Deeeep sense of having borne some great, unfair historical wrong
2. Tons of people
3. New and intense sense of destiny towards their backyard & the greater Pacific
4. Deep resentment of United States, perception of USA & West in general as being meddlers
5. Ongoing crackdown against internal enemies, distrust of marginal religions
6. Deep and recent military innovation & expansion
7. Energetic and often articulated ambition to catch up to & surpass the outside world
8. Recent feeling of being financially squeezed, of facing unfair tarriffs
Just rearrange a few words to history and you have modern times perched on your lap.
Not to mention a questionable food supply, they have to bury all those dead pigs.
I won’t/don’t buy any food from Asia.
This is not good. Desperate people often do desperate things.
Good thing the Chicoms bought Smithfield meats.
[Parallels between 1930’s Japan & Modern China:
1. Deeeep sense of having borne some great, unfair historical wrong
2. Tons of people
3. New and intense sense of destiny towards their backyard & the greater Pacific
4. Deep resentment of United States, perception of USA & West in general as being meddlers
5. Ongoing crackdown against internal enemies, distrust of marginal religions
6. Deep and recent military innovation & expansion
7. Energetic and often articulated ambition to catch up to & surpass the outside world
8. Recent feeling of being financially squeezed, of facing unfair tarriffs
Just rearrange a few words to history and you have modern times perched on your lap.]
This is more than a little little bump in the road. It’s going to be a real test of Chinese communist party.
Never forget the Melamine-laced dog food and the drywall they sold us that had so much formaldehyde in it that it had to be torn out of a huge number of homes here. In general, Asians have little regard for human life, and the Chinese, in particular, would kill us all in a heartbeat if they thought they’d survive doing it.
Seems like the only really good news here is that having to purchase pork from outside their country will put a great big hole in their idea of implementing retaliatory tariffs on the US. Ditto for Soybeans. They think that they can satisfy their need for Soybeans by buying from other sources. Good luck with that. We own more than 50% of the worldwide market. I hope Trump really does put huge tariffs on both China and Mexico, and leave them there long enough for both countries to see that America holds all the cards with respect to trade with both of them.
Guess what the US is really good at producing and exporting? Soybeans, pork, and wheat for noodles. And they can’t just throw up a factory and start producing these things like iPhones.
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