China fishes 900 dead pigs out of Shanghai river

[Ray]

If pigs die this way.China would be starving!

 

[Blackwater]

How will this mass suicide will affect world pork demand and supply

 

[hit&run]

Must have been from their strategic pork reserves.

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Raising hogs is a threat to water quality in normal circumstances.

http://www.thepigsite.com/articles/221/environmentally-safe-hog-waste-disposal-methods

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Must have been from their strategic pork reserves.

Maybe Chinese scientists are inserting genes from lemmings into hogs.

 

[Daredevil]

But still no information as to why these pigs are dying and floating in the river.

 

[rock127]

Can our dear Chini friends put some light on this? why are they keeping away?

 

[rock127]

But still no information as to why these pigs are dying and floating in the river.

May be poor Pigs drank milk from the Chinese factories which is often contaminated.

Or may be Pigs decided to become Lemings and do mass suicide as they are fed up of CCP and its monoplies and want change in goverence.

 

[HeinzGud]

Wonder how on earth Pakistan got engaged in a deep love with China.

 

[dhananjay1]

Could be some sort of epidemic. Swine flu that indeed acts on swines.

 

[Sunder singh]

what was the reason for mass suicide of pigs???

Upcoming recession in china,

 

[Armand2REP]

what was the reason for mass suicide of pigs???

They died from swine disease. The real travesty is dumping diseased pigs into the drinking source for 23 million people.

 

[Splurgenxs]

 

[satish007]

They died from swine disease. The real travesty is dumping diseased pigs into the drinking source for 23 million people.

shut up , Shanghai has already been improving, we BBQ dead pigs, Chinese don't waste food.
we feed 600,000,000 pigs a year, 10% dead rate, so we have 60,000,000 dead pigs a year.
Shanghai is doing progress, at least they start to dump dead pigs.
That's a good business recycle dead pigs in US, dead pigs can be changed to soap and other good stuff. you guys can check out TV series "Direty Jobs" for detail.
I believe some smarts Chinese have started to copy.

anyway dumping dead pigs is not environment friendly.
DFI forumers the "How pig parts make the world" by Christien Meindertsma should be reviewed.

 

[satish007]

root cause found.
46 jailed for processing, selling dead pigs - China News - SINA English
46 jailed for processing, selling dead pigs
no choice but dump

 

[W.G.Ewald]

News from The Associated Press

The number of dead pigs found in a Shanghai river that provides drinking water to the Chinese financial hub has risen to 8,354, after local authorities pulled 809 more pigs out of the river on Friday.

The Shanghai municipal government has repeatedly assured the city's 23 million residents that tap water is safe. Shanghai locals, however, remain worried about water contamination from the swollen and rotting carcasses in the river.

 

[afako]

What will Pakis who are dying to learn Chinese in Shanghai drink?

It will be Shirk to drink such water.

 

[Daredevil]

Dead pigs found floating in Hunan river

Scores of dead pigs have been retrieved from a Central China waterway, just weeks after thousands were discovered in Shanghai's Huangpu River.


A dead pig floats in the Liuyang River in Hunan Province.

Authorities have been pulling the carcasses from Liuyang River in Hunan province since Saturday. More than 70 pigs had been retrieved as of Sunday, but an official figure has yet to be released.

The carcasses were probably dumped by pig farmers upstream and were carried along the river due to recent rainstorms, the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald reported on Monday, quoting an unnamed agriculture, forestry and water resources official for Changsha's Kaifu district.

"We have to immediately remove them in a sanitary way to avoid water pollution and contamination," the official said.

Wu Guohua, another official, said it is rare to see such a large amount of dead pigs in the river.

The district environmental protection bureau said it will closely monitor the river's water quality to guarantee residents' safety.

"No bird flu virus was detected on the dead pigs," Tan Jingming, deputy director of the Changsha animal disease prevention and control center, said.

A series of similar discoveries have been reported across China since residents started complaining on March 5 about finding dead pigs in Huangpu River.

There has been an abnormally high number of dead hogs following an outbreak of porcine circovirus, a common disease, plus changeable weather this winter, the Ministry of Agriculture said on its website.

"Authorities should seriously investigate where the dead pigs come from and harshly punish the pig dumpers," said a resident surnamed Zhang, who said the situation posed a great threat to people's safety, especially after a new and deadly strain of bird flu was detected.

The discovery of tens of thousands of pig carcasses nationwide has raised concerns about how the country deals with numerous dead pigs every year.

The National Bureau of Statistics said China had about 700 million pigs in 2012, of which 18 million died of disease.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture, pig farmers can get a subsidy of 80 yuan ($12) for each pig dead of disease. Regulations require animals that died in this way to be disposed of in a sanitary way, such as burial at least 1.5 meters deep or cremated.

But because the subsidy application process is complicated, many pig farmers choose to sell the dead pigs to illegal buyers, said Li Waiguang, a farmer in Yingtan, Jiangxi province.

"If authorities crack down on dead pig transactions, farmers will dump the dead into the nearest rivers," he added.

Li suggested authorities establish sanitary treatment stations for dead animals to help farmers.

Dead pigs found floating in Hunan river- China.org.cn

 

[Armand2REP]

Hell, another Chini river polluted with diseased pigs. Is there some reason they can't just dig a mass grave? Someone over there has to own a backhoe.

 

[rock127]

20,000 pigs found dead till the last report.

Now Chinese can simply drink the river water which turned into Pig Soup.