Huawei turns to pig farming as smartphone sales fall:
The Chinese telecoms giant was stopped from accessing vital components after the Trump administration labelled it a threat to US national security.
[...] And so, Huawei appears to be looking for other sources of revenue - moving into cloud computing services, smart vehicles and wearable devices. It even has plans for a smart car.
But it also has its eye on a few more traditional industries.
China has the world's biggest pig farming industry and is home to half the world's live hogs.
Technology is helping to modernise pig farms with AI being introduced to detect diseases and track pigs.
Facial recognition technology can identify individual pigs, while other technology monitors their weight, diet and exercise.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Subsentient on Wednesday February 24 2021, @04:13AM (5 children)
China really loves their pig farms. Their enormous, unfathomably cruel pig farms, with thousands and thousands of pigs literally pushed around alive with bulldozers. I've ended up seeing some really fucked up videos out of Chinese pig farms.
I guess Huawei is shifting focus from worsening the lives of humans to worsening the lives of literal swine.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 24 2021, @07:09AM (1 child)
And if you didn't know, pork tastes a lot like the tenderized flesh of dissident Uiygers. Also in unrelated Chinese news - no wait-list on kidney transplants.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 24 2021, @11:29AM
No wait on kidneys could theoretically be donors. Scheduling heart transplants weeks ahead though definitely means they are executing people for their organs.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday February 24 2021, @11:50AM
U.S. pig farms are just as _efficient_ as Chinese, but they do keep most of the horrifying activities under cover in the sheds. If they ever perfect smellovision the journalists will go hog wild with shocumentaries about hog and chicken farms.
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(Score: 2) by Muad'Dave on Wednesday February 24 2021, @12:32PM
They love pork so much a Chinese company now owns Smithfield [smithfieldfoods.com], one of the largest pork producers in the US [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Thursday February 25 2021, @12:38AM
Interesting, the Chinese bots must be on SN too, since someone moderated this as "Troll".
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 24 2021, @04:16AM
I'm using it bookmaked to spy him on own tabs. Shut up filthy whore, I'm too vomit !
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 24 2021, @04:52AM (1 child)
A witch-hunt whereby the presumed 'social offender' suspect is a white, chauvinist male.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Subsentient on Wednesday February 24 2021, @04:57AM
Maybe you've heard this one.
What's the Mexican pig say?
Oinko, oinko.
What's the Japanese pig say?
Oinku, oinku.
What's the American pig say?
STOP RESISTING
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 24 2021, @05:08AM
Look at the label.
As much as I love pork, I ain't eating no "Chinese pork."
Do you know China is battling fake vaccines? Some of them might have been exported to some 3rd world countries desperate for corona vaccines.
Proud "Han China," As if it's not bad enough to export the pandemic disease, they are exporting fake vaccines.
(Score: 2, Funny) by MostCynical on Wednesday February 24 2021, @05:23AM (1 child)
if they can tell one pig from another, they'll be much better at sort out one white person from another..
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 24 2021, @07:20AM
But can they tell one chink from another? Or a Negro from a Gorilla?
(Score: 2) by sjames on Wednesday February 24 2021, @08:00AM (1 child)
ENERGY!
(Score: 2) by looorg on Wednesday February 24 2021, @12:54PM
Huawei runs Bartertown?
(Score: 3, Touché) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday February 24 2021, @02:39PM (1 child)
I took the announcement as a sign that Huawei has discovered a need to make a large number of dead bodies disappear.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 24 2021, @03:08PM
Or a local communist party boss wanted a favor.