Does anyone else find this story unsettling and scary...?
The Chinese Government has been forced to admit that they have retrieved 5,916 dead pigs from the Huangpu River. Now , that is a lot of dead pigs....
The local Authorities in Shanghai appealed for calm as they acknowledged finding far more dead pigs in local rivers than earlier indicated and laid blame for the gruesome waterway disposal on careless farmers in a neighboring Chinese province.
Key government bureaus in Shanghai played down public concerns about human and animal health from the incident, saying there is no epidemic and that the city's drinking water remains safe. They said the problem was isolated to poor pig-farming methods in a town near Shanghai.
This incident has Shanghai on edge because most of the tap water for its 23 million residents comes from intakes on the Huangpu River. The river flows through Shanghai's central districts about 70 kilometers (43 miles) downstream from where the pigs were floating.
The government reiterated Tuesday that its testing has detected only porcine circovirus pathogen, a disease that U.S. and Chinese researchers say affects pigs but isn't a known health concern for humans. Officials said water monitoring is constant and that they are sample-testing retrieved dead pigs. A statement from the agriculture department of Zhejiang said no signs of an epidemic were found among animals in Jiaxing.
I DO NOT BUY THIS STORY
Remember this is the country that tried to cover up the SARS pandemic......
Of more concern is that New Zealand's Free Trade Agreement with China sees tons of Chinese Pork imported into New Zealand. Most New Zealanders would buy it thinking it produce from New Zealand.
The chinese social media sites have unconfirmed reports that there is a mystery disease killing thousands of pigs within China. I do not find it normal to read of 5,916 pigs floating down a river. There is something wrong here !
WOULD YOU BUY IMPORTED CHINESE PORK ??
