A Vicious Disease Is Wiping Out China’s Pig Population
It’s estimated that African swine fever could kill half of China’s pigs by the end of 2019
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6 min readAug 6, 2019
Of all the 900 million pigs being raised on farms around the world today, more than 400 million are in China. Pork is so central to the Chinese diet — especially as the country has grown wealthier — that menus there often…
