+/- 500 Pig Carcasses Recovered Monthly From Sichuan Province Reservoir; Farmers Dodging Inspections

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Hundreds of dead pigs are being recovered every month from a Chinese reservoir, partly due to government efforts to stop carcasses making their way onto the dining table, state media said Wednesday.

The revelations about the reservoir in Qionglai, in the southwestern province of Sichuan, are the latest scandal relating to food safety to hit China.

The news comes one week after authorities found 157 dead pigs in a river in Jiangxi province. A year ago China was stunned by the appearance of more than 16,000 dead pigs floating along parts of the Huangpu river which flows through the country's commercial hub Shanghai. The dead creatures also started to drift along rivers into the Qionglai irrigation reservoir five years ago, the Western China City Daily reported.

Now an average of 500 carcasses are retrieved from it every month, the report said, citing Xu Bangchun, one of the two workers hired by local water resources authorities to deal with the remains.

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http://www.seeddaily.com/reports/Flood_of_dead_pigs_in_China_reservoir_report_999.html

[Nihil]

1. Yum ... cold pork soup on tap!

Only to be expected from the land where slaughtering a tiger is a badge of "high status"
and consuming the remnants of rare creatures is the only way to get a hard-on.