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China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads

posted by mrpg on Monday September 03 2018, @12:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'd-still-eat-them dept.

Bytram (from IRC) writes:

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 04 2018, @02:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 04 2018, @02:49AM (#730092)

    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.