Number of dead pigs found in Shanghai rivers rises to 16,000 (graphic pic)

[marmar]

(Independent UK) A police campaign to curb the illicit trade in sick pig parts in China appears to be having little effect as the number of dead pigs recovered in the last two weeks from rivers that supply water to Shanghai now stands at more than 16,000.

The government in China's financial hub says that 10,570 carcasses have been pulled from its Huangpu river. That is in addition to 5,528 pigs plucked from upstream tributaries in the Jiaxing area of Zhejiang province.

Authorities give daily updates assuring the public that tests show Shanghai's water is safe, but no official has given any full explanation about the massive dumping of pig carcasses.

The dumping follows a crackdown on the illegal trade in contaminated pork. .................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/number-of-dead-pigs-found-in-shanghai-rivers-rises-to-16000-8546089.html

[BillyJack]

1. I don't understand this story...

Are the pigs dying b/c of the water in the river?

Are the dead pigs contaminating the river water (that people will use)? ~ probably, but is that the story

Are the pigs being dumped in the river b/c they are sick? (why not burn them?)

or

I don't "get" this story. But I'm sure it's important.....16,000 pigs.....wow.

TIA for any clarity here.

[snooper2]

2. You ever watch Spongebob?

The episode where Mr. Crabs had spongebob take the grease from the pit, load it in a truck and the dumped it behind the Chum Bucket?

It's like that

[BillyJack]

3. Thanks for answering....but, no, I don't/haven't watched the teevee

in years, (and have never lived by the sea, so I don't understand about 'chum buckets' and what that all is about) so I still don't understand.

[independentpiney]

4. SpongeBob is one of the better documentaries on tv these days nt

[BillyJack]

5. ok. I'll save up for it after I purchase the Planet Earth series

:-/

[snooper2]

7. Well, right now Peppa Pig is on so

[kenny blankenship]

6. I told em - More than 15,000 dead pigs in 1 river is going to get noticed

Even in China, the smog doesn't everything, every day. 13,000 in the same river is pushing it! I said. But do they listen? They could have dumped 8 thousand in the one river inconspicuously, and put the other 8 into dim sum and NO ONE WOULD EVER KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. Except for all the deaths attributed to the dim sum. That could be traced back - maybe. However, you can always claim the link between death and the diseased pork byproducts used in dim sum is "still inconclusive". Maybe the chef mishandled the pork? 120,000 times in a row? Maybe there was a big batch of wonton that was laced with salmonella? I gave them a good dodge, a bulletproof dodge in fact, if they were willing to put in a little work moving the rotting pigs as food grade product on the secondary market. But no, they had to take the quick and dirty route. Yeah, dump it all in the river in the middle of the night and run like scared rabbits. That's why you'll never be big time, China!

[Paul E Ester]

8. They talk about "contaminated" pigs.

I suspect they were using some superfunkadelic chemical in the pork feed, maybe a hormone.

When the "government began the crackdown" on contaminated meat all the farmers were left with their superfast growing mutant yeti-growth hormone pigs that no one would buy.

Now what does Mr. Farmer do with his mutant pigs? The wal-mart bacon factory is running full blast, no room there.

No one will buy them, they cost money to get rid of. Dump them in a river.