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PostSubject: Pigs dumped in river: 6000+ Shanghai, Huangpu River & Yangtze River    Pigs dumped in river: 6000+ Shanghai, Huangpu River & Yangtze River  I_icon_minitimeMon Mar 11, 2013 12:54 pm

Yeah right!
Starting to smell like a pig stye!

(had to find different link as other had bad code)
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/pestilence-watch-bird-flu-outbreak-reported-in-india-1200-dead-pigs-found-floating-in-chinese-river/

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. The Shanghai government said today on its official Weibo microblog account that the total number of carcasses found in the Songjiang and Jinshan districts has risen to more than 2,800 as of yesterday, up from the more than 1,200 reported earlier. A preliminary investigation showed the dead pigs, which include piglets and mature hogs, had floated down the river from neighboring Zhejiang province, it said. Shanghai said it detected traces of a virus that may have killed pigs found in a river that runs through the city as the government reported the number of dead animals retrieved from the water more than doubled. Porcine circovirus, a common disease among hogs that isn’t known to be infectious to humans, was found in a sample taken from the Songjiang section of the Huangpu river, Shanghai’s agriculture department said, citing the city’s animal disease control authorities. Tests conducted hourly on the river, which provides drinking water for some of the municipality’s 23 million residents, were negative for other diseases including foot-and-mouth, swine fever, hog cholera and blue-ear, it said. Discovery of the dead pigs is the latest scare in China, where the government has come under criticism for its handling of health and environmental issues. The government announced yesterday a plan for a regulator with broader authority to ensure food and drug safety and said the agriculture ministry will oversee the quality of farm products, underpinning its pledge to crack down on violations and better protect consumers. –Bloomberg


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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-13/hogwash-spreading-floating-pig-carcasses-are-found-second-chinese-river

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Hogwash Spreading - Floating Pig Carcasses Are Found In Second Chinese River
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/13/2013 - 07:38

While the media is transfixed with the final figure of floating dead pigs found Shanghai's Huangpu River, which at last check was crossing 6000, a bigger problem has emerged: pig carcasses have now been spotted in a different river, which means that the worst case scenario could be in play. From Shanghai Daily: 'Pig carcasses now found in Hubei river: Around 50 pig carcasses were today discovered in a tributary of the Yangtze River in Yichang City, Hubei Province, China Central Television reported. Some of the bodies were highly decomposed, said the report. The carcasses were spotted floating near Wulong Village. The local government has launched an investigation and dispatched officials to the scene. The news has attracted much public attention as it follows the discovery of thousand of dead pigs in Shanghai's Huangpu River, a branch of the Yangtze. By late yesterday, almost 6,000 pig carcasses had been fished out of the river and an investigation into where they came from is ongoing."
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Pig toll from Shanghai, Jiaxing rivers climbs above 12,000 | South China Morning Post

Jiaxing was a big hog producer but most pig farms were very small and unprofessional, he said, so the number of dead hogs was unusually high.

The city’s vice-mayor, Zhao Shumei , said on Friday night that some local farmers were in the habit of dumping dead pigs in inappropriate places.

“Most of the dead pigs retrieved died more than two weeks ago,” Zhao said. “The deaths didn’t occur within a short period.”

The carcasses, which originally sank to the river beds, gradually floated up as the weather became warmer, she said.

A total of 130,000 households raised more than seven million hogs in Jiaxing last year – with 89 per cent of them running small farms with capacity for fewer than 50 pigs.

Pig toll from Shanghai, Jiaxing rivers climbs above 12,000 | South China Morning Post
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