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Excessive animal fattening: prices for pork plummet

China’s pork prices have been dropping since the beginning of the year. This is curbing the inflation rate and providing relief for consumers. The massive build-up of breeding stock around the country is thus showing success. But prices will continue to fluctuate – for which the government attempts at price stabilization are partly to blame.

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Ning Wang
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Pigs as heavy as polar bears or even small hippos. Pictures of breeding animals fattened up to 200 kilograms and more were recently shown on several news broadcasts of the Chinese state media. But these were not reports of acknowledgment. Rather, farmers were denounced for having triggered an oversupply thanks to excessive overfeeding of pigs. They are to be blamed for dropping prices for pork – much to the farmers’ disadvantage.

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