Serpentfire666
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And the 'Chinese authorities claim water quality is not effected'
This is so fucked up.
http://www.examiner.com/article/more-th ... jor-c\
hinese-waterway?CID=SM-facebook-031113-10.00a-ThousandsDeadPigsChina
Thousands of dead pigs have been found floating in a major Chinese waterway,
raising health and environmental concerns.
South China Morning Post reported Monday that Chinese officials have pulled at
least 3,323 swollen and rotten dead pigs from a Shanghai river since Thursday
including one that tested positive for the swine virus.
The dead pigs were found floating at the Songjiang district section of the
Huangpu River that flows through Shanghai, which is a drinking water source for
city residents.
The city government, citing monitoring authorities, said the drinking water
quality has not been affected, despite the positive test of the swine virus,
Pocine Circovirus type 2 or PCV-2. Officials say the virus is not known to cause
disease in humans.
Shanghai's Agriculture Committee said authorities don't know yet what caused the
pigs to die or why they were dumped in the river. However, the dumping follows a
crackdown on the illegal trade in contaminated pork.
Dead pigs are strewn along the riverbanks of Songjiang district in Shanghai,
China.
Dead pigs are strewn along the riverbanks of Songjiang district in Shanghai,
China.
Photo credit:
(Imaginechina)
In China, pigs that have died from disease should be either incinerated or
buried, but some unscrupulous farmers and animal control officials have sold
problematic carcasses to slaughterhouses.
The pork harvested from such carcasses has ended up in markets. As a food safety
problem, it has drawn attention from China's Ministry of Public Security, which
has made it a priority to crack down on gangs that purchase dead or sick pigs
and process them for illegal profits.
"According to the law, dead pigs must be burned or buried, but if there is
not enough regulatory monitoring, it's possible some of them will be sold into
the market at low prices," Zheng Fengtian, a professor at the School of
Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at Renmin University in Beijing.
Zhejiang police said on their official website that police have been campaigning
to crack down on pork meat harvested from sick pigs and that the efforts were
stepped up this winter as Chinese families gathered to celebrate the Lunar New
Year in February.
Shanghai's city government said initial investigations have found the dead pigs
had come from the upper tributaries of the river in Jiaxing city in Zhejiang
province.
Jiaxing local media reported last week that more than 18,000 pigs from one
village have died from illness in the last two months. The reports have sparked
fears that residents dumped all of the diseased animals in the river.
CCTV reported local residents near Huangpu River saying that dumping dead,
diseased pigs in the river was common practice.
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Hail Satan
This is so fucked up.
http://www.examiner.com/article/more-th ... jor-c\
hinese-waterway?CID=SM-facebook-031113-10.00a-ThousandsDeadPigsChina
Thousands of dead pigs have been found floating in a major Chinese waterway,
raising health and environmental concerns.
South China Morning Post reported Monday that Chinese officials have pulled at
least 3,323 swollen and rotten dead pigs from a Shanghai river since Thursday
including one that tested positive for the swine virus.
The dead pigs were found floating at the Songjiang district section of the
Huangpu River that flows through Shanghai, which is a drinking water source for
city residents.
The city government, citing monitoring authorities, said the drinking water
quality has not been affected, despite the positive test of the swine virus,
Pocine Circovirus type 2 or PCV-2. Officials say the virus is not known to cause
disease in humans.
Shanghai's Agriculture Committee said authorities don't know yet what caused the
pigs to die or why they were dumped in the river. However, the dumping follows a
crackdown on the illegal trade in contaminated pork.
Dead pigs are strewn along the riverbanks of Songjiang district in Shanghai,
China.
Dead pigs are strewn along the riverbanks of Songjiang district in Shanghai,
China.
Photo credit:
(Imaginechina)
In China, pigs that have died from disease should be either incinerated or
buried, but some unscrupulous farmers and animal control officials have sold
problematic carcasses to slaughterhouses.
The pork harvested from such carcasses has ended up in markets. As a food safety
problem, it has drawn attention from China's Ministry of Public Security, which
has made it a priority to crack down on gangs that purchase dead or sick pigs
and process them for illegal profits.
"According to the law, dead pigs must be burned or buried, but if there is
not enough regulatory monitoring, it's possible some of them will be sold into
the market at low prices," Zheng Fengtian, a professor at the School of
Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at Renmin University in Beijing.
Zhejiang police said on their official website that police have been campaigning
to crack down on pork meat harvested from sick pigs and that the efforts were
stepped up this winter as Chinese families gathered to celebrate the Lunar New
Year in February.
Shanghai's city government said initial investigations have found the dead pigs
had come from the upper tributaries of the river in Jiaxing city in Zhejiang
province.
Jiaxing local media reported last week that more than 18,000 pigs from one
village have died from illness in the last two months. The reports have sparked
fears that residents dumped all of the diseased animals in the river.
CCTV reported local residents near Huangpu River saying that dumping dead,
diseased pigs in the river was common practice.
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Hail Satan
