China's food supply imperiled

[IsailedawayfromFR]

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.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/06/chinas_food_supply_imperiled_.html

and here I thought the hogs were bad in Texas....

[Sanguine]

Interesting development.

[Wingnut]

Despite all its growth China is still a 3rd world communist shithole.

[rustynail]

Cat/dog shortage?

[Free Vulcan]

The Chinese could care less. They have a billion and a half people within their borders.

They could lose HALF A BILLION people and the rest would be like 'oh good, more room for the rest of us.'

They do not value life as we do.

[truth_seeker]

How long until Der Diktator Terrible Trump is poinsoning helpless kindhearter poor ppeople in struggling

,democrat socialist nations that toil 16 hrs per day to make our iphones,, Nikes, clothes, etc?

End the tarifs, so these wonderfu people can get back to work, stealing intellectual property.

[Absalom]

The Chinese could care less. They have a billion and a half people within their borders.
They could lose HALF A BILLION people and the rest would be like 'oh good, more room for the rest of us.'
They do not value life as we do.

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The 4000 year history of Chinese autocratic
dynastic rule affirms every word you uttered.
Well done!