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Livestock in China may have been transported over long distances, and there were currently no humane-slaughter requirements. [1] Marine animals in a market in Hainan Province, China. Almost 3/4 of China's meat is pork, and China's 476 million pigs comprise half of the world's pig population. [27]
In early March 2013 over 16,000 dead pigs were found in the Shanghai Songjiang section of the Huangpu River, which supplies the city of Shanghai, China with some of its drinking water. [1] [2] The pigs were dumped by farmers in neighbouring Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, a major pig farming area that is upstream of Shanghai. [3] [4] [5] [6]
Muyuan was founded by husband and wife Qin Yinglin and Qian Ying, who started their first farm in 1992. [2] By 1994, they had 2,000 pigs, and by 1997 they had 10,000. In 2000, Qin founded Muyuan Farming (牧原养殖), the company that would eventually become Muyuan Foodstuff. [3]
Pigs are farmed in many countries, though the countries mainly consuming them are in Asia, meaning there is a significant international and even intercontinental trade in live and slaughtered pigs. Despite having the world's largest herd, China is a net importer of pigs as China consumes about 50% of global pork production. [9]
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There were pigs in Cyprus more than 11,400 years ago, introduced from the mainland, implying domestication in the adjacent mainland by then. [23] Pigs were separately domesticated in China, starting some 8,000 years ago. [24] [25] [26] In the Near East, pig husbandry spread for the next few millennia.
A flippant reference to pigs in an inflation analysis by UBS Group AG's global chief economist has caused a furore in China, with some in the financial community rejecting UBS's apology and ...
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