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China culls 38,000 pigs as swine fever spreads.
More than 38,000 pigs have been culled across China, state media said Sunday, as the world's largest pork producer scrambles to contain an outbreak of African swine fever.
The disease has been discovered in five Chinese provinces, the official Xinhua news service reported, quoting statistics from the country's ministry of agriculture.
China reported its first case of the disease in August in northeast Liaoning province.
Since then the disease has moved south, with cases discovered as far as 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) away, raising concerns it could infect pig farms across the country.
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For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 03 2018, @01:01PM (3 children)
Paying the higher tariffs, wait for it ..... Tariffs have been removed from pork
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday September 03 2018, @01:53PM (2 children)
They had good reason for doing - some manner of health reason - but I'm afraid I don't recall what it recall what it was, and can't be bothered to lift a finger to find out.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by requerdanos on Monday September 03 2018, @04:40PM (1 child)
I think it might have been related to the rise of Mongodb, but not sure.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 03 2018, @07:35PM
Pork blockchain! Porkcoin! Web scale!
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday September 03 2018, @01:34PM
Think of the chitterlings!
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday September 03 2018, @01:52PM (7 children)
Recall several years ago there was a widespread outbreak of Swine Flu among humans.
The gummint of Egypt got the idea in their heads that human swine flu was being spread by pigs, so they ordered all the pigs in Egypt slaughtered.
Up until their untimely demise, the pigs kept by the Egyptian Copts - one of the oldest Christian sects, and arguably the sect that the Lineage Of Peter should be found in - were eating all the trash that was dumped out on Cairo for them.
In the words of the Immortal Inspector Clouseau: Not Anymore [youtu.be].
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday September 03 2018, @02:02PM (6 children)
100% pure horseshit. That was only an excuse for Jew vaccine manufarturers to make more profits scaring the American public.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday September 03 2018, @02:43PM (3 children)
Waaaait, you're anti-vax? Shit, that explains a lot...must have had something awful as a kid and it messed up your brain.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 03 2018, @03:37PM
yes, the "something awefull" was the goddamned vaccine, you big pharma shill.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 03 2018, @06:37PM (1 child)
I think he's got more than just one cause to blame for all of the symptoms he has. There's no vaccine that can cure what ails him.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 03 2018, @08:22PM
In general, vaccines don't cure things... they are prevention. So it is far too late.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 03 2018, @04:55PM
Stupid person says stupid shit. Again.
(Score: 3, Touché) by PartTimeZombie on Monday September 03 2018, @09:57PM
Wow, the Jews control everything in your mind don't they?
Now that my sister is a Jew, I will have to ask her what her cut of that sweet vaccine money is. Looks like she's doing very well for herself.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by acid andy on Monday September 03 2018, @02:00PM (11 children)
Apparently the disease usually has no symptoms in wild species of swine, so it looks like humans' selective breeding of domestic pigs introduced some kind of weakness. I guess that's what happens when you try to screw around with natural selection to optimize for traits that don't serve the species. There's no vaccine, but perhaps the genes that provide resistance to the disease could be identified?
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 03 2018, @03:09PM (10 children)
> optimize for traits that don't serve the species
Come on, don't dance around the topic, you mean BACON!
(Score: 1, Disagree) by acid andy on Monday September 03 2018, @03:13PM (9 children)
OK, I'll admit I used to enjoy that stuff years ago but really it's just the saltiness, fat, crispiness, and savory flavor that makes it good. You don't need animal corpses to get those things.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 03 2018, @04:59PM (8 children)
You don't need animal corpses to get those things.
Bacon flavored bits ingredients:
Somehow - I just never got used to eating soy flour flavored to taste like charred animal flesh. I'd rather fry up some grasshoppers or something. It's the omnivorous side of my family tree I guess. The herbivore side died out long ago. Maybe that's why we have so little denisovan or neanderthal genetics left?
(Score: 1, Troll) by acid andy on Monday September 03 2018, @05:23PM
Perhaps next time you try out some fried veg you could read through some accident statistics or newspaper articles about ongoing wars. That way your irrational taste for death and suffering could be satiated whilst your taste buds are adequately titillated, Runaway.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 03 2018, @08:14PM (5 children)
Yeah, attempts to make soy taste like meat all fail. I'd rather have a decent Gardenburger, one of the ones that doesn't try to hide that it's soy, potato, and other vegetables.
Of course, one must then put bacon++ on it, lest one be suspected of being a vegan incel. Or worse! An MGTOW! A traitor to the patriarchy! Something like Chelsea Manning! amirite?!
Trigger warning!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 03 2018, @08:32PM (2 children)
Don't know about all of that nonsense. I eat what I like to eat, and never worry about what someone who might be watching thinks. Traitor to the patriarchy? Do some people think like that? Something like Chelsea Manning? You mean Bradley Manning. amirite?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 04 2018, @05:50AM (1 child)
I really mean Bradley Womanning.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 04 2018, @07:29AM
Bradley Bitch?
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Tuesday September 04 2018, @12:44AM (1 child)
For some reason chefs and food manufacturers presenting vegan food seem to be obsessed with providing these "mock meats". I can see the idea might appeal to someone that enjoys meat but wants to transition to a vegan diet and wants to use them as a sort of temporary meat surrogate. I think there are a lot of fad dieters and hipsters that do the vegan thing now in a casual or temporary way to try and look cool, lose weight, or improve health. My own view is that if you want to become vegan permanently, you're just going to give yourself a hard time if you try and kid yourself these things are like meats. Better to just enjoy foods and their flavors on their own merits. Your palate soon changes. I would almost certainly vomit if I ate meat now. So, for vegans like me, the idea of mock meats is nausea-inducing -- and for meat lovers, they're likely to be a poor imitation. So, yeah, maybe it's better for everyone to just drop the pretense. Lab grown meat will fill the gap.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 04 2018, @02:14AM
The real tragedy of people who eat mock meats just to be hipsters is that they're missing things that are so much better.
For example, why screw around with fake hot dogs? That has to be the most disgusting mock meat I've ever tried. Instead, they should grill up some carrots and have carrot dogs. Not totally unlike a hot dog and so delicious, especially with salsa or even just mustard and relish.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Monday September 03 2018, @08:56PM
That particular product seems to be "smoke flavored" in the hope that the burned taste will be evocative of burned meats. I don't detect much in the way of animal flavor except indirectly (the product smells almost, but not quite completely, unlike bacon, and scent is an important cue for flavor).
In order to get the right combination of things to make something taste like bacon, an essential step at our current state of the art in food science is still "add bacon."
I do see lots of products with misspelled names ("Sour Creme","Dairy Free Cheezecake") that don't contain anything that the name would seem to indicate, and "Bacn pieces" don't disappoint here, as they contain no bacon bits. Heck, they are certified Kosher. In my opinion, these foodlike products aren't a substitute for food.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 03 2018, @03:08PM (1 child)
This must be really bad if state controlled media is reporting it. I wonder how much larger this problem really is? The linked article says there was a warning from a UN agency back in May...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by PartTimeZombie on Monday September 03 2018, @10:05PM
That was my thought also. If the Chinese media is reporting 38,000 culled, I'm going to assume it was actually 500,000 and another 1,000,000 pigs that should have been culled have been trucked off somewhere out of sight.
It is entirely possible that this disease is in China to stay now.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 03 2018, @03:44PM (8 children)
i'm not currently a vegetarian or vegan, but i do think meat consumers should boycott/drastically reduce their consumption (with communication of their reasons) until animals are raised and slaughtered humanely. factory farms and other practices should be stopped now.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Monday September 03 2018, @04:26PM (6 children)
https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=25583&page=1&cid=679441#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
Lab-grown meat could solve your animal suffering concerns and a lot more:
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2011-06-21-lab-grown-meat-would-cut-emissions-and-save-energy [ox.ac.uk]
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 03 2018, @06:42PM (4 children)
And I am sure the Republican party will be against calling such adhesed protein blobs "meat" because it wasn't grown by a honest to goodness capitalist the way god intended, with genetic engineering to and farm auctions and slaugther houses and manure pits.
Lab grown meat will significantly improve the planet, never mind the needless continued death of animals for generations and generations to come. it'll be like renewable energy -- it'll replace the old methods and still provide the same product we're used to, just differently.
And think about it--it may reform society, or at least politics. No cows except for dairy farmers! What will the Republicans do without being able to spread such huge amounts of BS anymore? There'll only be a little bit compared to now, and they'll need to apply it thinly or learn to pile it up where it really counts.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday September 03 2018, @10:38PM
U.S. Cattlemen's Association Wants an Official Definition of "Meat" [soylentnews.org]
Regulation Coming to Lab-Grown Meat [soylentnews.org]
Missouri Regulates Use of the Word "Meat" by Food Producers [soylentnews.org]
Perhaps predictably, the industry resistance is starting to creep up. Given that there are Silicon Valley billionaires on the other side and no actual products on the shelves, I don't know how effective it will be.
Ideally, cultured meat would compete on price, but I doubt initial products from Memphis Meats and others are going to be reasonably priced. Hey, maybe that's one way to get around industry-backed labeling laws: put "Meat(s)" in your company's name.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 04 2018, @01:30AM (2 children)
Kosher Bacon?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 04 2018, @02:49AM
Given that interpretation of kosher rules seems to be in line with contagious magic [wikipedia.org], the DNA came from a forbidden animal and thus makes all it touches and generates unclean. So there will be no kosher lab meat.
If it were sympathetic magic, then Bac'n™ could not be kosher. Contagious magic, however, allows for mock meats meant to imitate forbidden animal products, because they did not actually come from a forbidden animal.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 05 2018, @12:59PM
Around here for a while you could buy halal certified bacon
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 04 2018, @05:53AM
Stop right there, go back a word and try again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 03 2018, @04:30PM
Do you vote at the grocery store by buying meat that is raised this way? (reality--the packaging makes this claim--pretty hard to confirm at consumer level)
Like you, we think it makes a difference and we can afford it, so we do.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Monday September 03 2018, @07:28PM
If no samples were given? https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/08/29/0831258 [soylentnews.org]
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