A deadly virus that has decimated Chinese hog herds has prompted buyers in the world’s largest pork market to purchase more of the meat from U.S. producers for the first time in a year.
Now U.S. officials are enlisting sniffer dogs and other heightened monitoring efforts to help protect that hog-market rally. They are inspecting shipments of live hogs, frozen meat and other goods into the U.S. for evidence of African swine fever, a contagious disease that is nearly 100% fatal in both domestic and wild pigs. It doesn’t affect...
Send that beagle to the senate. Plenty of swine there.
As if animal agriculture wasn't disgusting enough, live exports is the most deplorable. We really need to find a better way to feed our people because this isn't it 🤮 and it isn't sustainable!
Funny. China allows meat imports from 21 countries, and why China chooses the United States. People must learn to be grateful
Fun fact: the poor in America don't eat dog, but in China, both the poor and the rich eat dog. Culture
So regulations on swine processing to protect our health here are being reduced, yet increased for export.
name of the virus: swineflu China