Your Daily Rotting Chinese Pig Carcass Update - Floating Body Count Approaching 15,000 - Irish Times

[hatrack]

Nearly two weeks after officials began pulling pig carcasses out of the Huangpu, the number of hogs discovered floating in the river, which supplies one-fifth of Shanghai ’s drinking water, and in nearby waterways, is closing in on 15,000.

How they got there and why they were dumped remain the myster ies at the heart of what some are calling the “hog wash scandal”. Two-thirds of them are piglets.

The Shanghai Information Office insists there is no need to panic, and that the food supply is safe. Local farmers have been told to properly dispose of dead animals.

The chief vet for China ’s agriculture ministry, Yu Kangzhen, found no evidence of a swine epidemic, but said some samples tested positive for common porcine circovirus and a diarrhoea virus.

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http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/chinese-seek-answers-as-more-floating-pig-carcasses-found-in-hog-wash-scandal-1.1331538

[Renew Deal]

1. We're they alive when they were dumped?

And how is it possible 15,000 pigs are dumped in a river and no one knows anything about it?

[idwiyo]

2. I bet they do, just not going to fess up.