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Hogwash Update - Latest Number Of Floating Chinese Pigs: 5,916 And Rising Fast
First it was 900, then 1200, then 3000, and now the latest tally of dead pigs floating in the Shanghai water supply has hit nearly 6000. AP has the latest number: " The number of dead pigs found floating in a river flowing into Shanghai has reached nearly 6,000. The Shanghai municipal government said in an online announcement that 5,916 swine carcasses had been retrieved from Huangpu River by 3 p.m. Tuesday, but added that municipal water remains safe." At what point will the dead pigs begin to pose a health challenge? 10,000? 100,000? What is the maximum Chinese Surgeon General RDA of dead pig in one's drinking water? And whatever it is, how long until, pulling a page from Fukushima, it is quickly doubled? But perhaps the biggest question is what is causing this mass death phenomenon, and what does it mean for the quality and safety of other pigs in circulation?
More from AP
The surge in the dumping of dead pigs — believed to be from pig farms in the upstream Jiaxing area in the neighboring Zhejiang province — has followed police campaigns to curb the illicit trade of pork products harvested from diseased pigs.
Shanghai authorities said the city has taken proper measures to safely dispose of the pig carcasses and that the city's water plants are stepping up efforts to disinfect public water and testing for six common swine viruses.
The Shanghai government reported no major swine epidemic, widespread pig deaths or dumping of pigs within the city boundaries of Shanghai.
The state-run China News news agency said Monday that Zhejiang province had reported no swine epidemic but that a provincial agriculture official blamed cold weather for the deaths of the pigs.
The official, who was identified only by his family name Gu, told China News that the practice of dumping dead pigs into rivers lingers among some pig farmers in the city of Jiaxing. "We are still introducing the practice of collecting dead pigs," Gu was quoted as saying.
Shanghai authorities have been pulling out the swollen and rotting pigs, some with their internal organs visible, since Friday — and revolting images of the carcasses in news reports and online blogs have raised public ire against local officials.
Beijing-based writer Li Mingsheng expressed shock when he learned of the latest number of dead pigs in Shanghai.
"This is not only an environmental issue but also a public moral problem," Li wrote. "What's been polluted is not only Shanghai's river water but also the spirit of our country people."
The good news: China has many, many more pigs. Recall this chart:
The bad news: what happens if China were to uncover that whatever ailments were present in the current batch of "hog wash" has become an epidemic? Just how high will the most important price tag in all of China - pork meat - soar to if quality controls were to be enabled? And what happens to food inflation which in China is actually indicative of reality due to its component as a percentage of CPI being one of the highest in the entire world?
How quick will the PBOC be forced to extract even more liquidity from the market then, and have the Politburo make urgent calls to the rest of the G-7 demanding an immediate, if transitory, end to the global reflation experiment?
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Pig Shoo Soup, special today, $6.99 with rice and egg roll.
MooShoo Pork with special plum sauce on discount at Shanghai Bistro today
General Sow Chicken, $8.99. Comes with fortune cookie and Chinese tea.
I am sure those pigs will make their way over here somehow...its cheaper and it will definitely help in the fight against inflation.
Yup.
I'm still waiting for a report of 100 tonnes of egg noodles and 10 tonnes of MSG being dumped into the river before anyone can can it and send it to the USA...
Baby Bok Choy
I smell opportunity.
If we floated a few horse heads down the Potomac, do you think maybe the symbolism would...
We already knew pigs can't fly.
This is confirmation that pigs can't scuba without gear either.
Time to start rolling out those melamine pig meals to the serfs.
Poor pigs, man...They had to live in fucking China and now this.
Did Goldman shut down a brokerage over there?
"Ooh, ooh that smell
Can't you smell that smell?
Ooh, ooh that smell
The smell of death surrounds you."
mmm. bacon water. most honarable.
Kaiser, Don't look now, but is that a drone above your house?
Sweet n' Soggy pork?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu0Q8CZ6now
Five "Beatles-haters"?
Porkpocalypse!
Chinese Poultry Foundation: "Pork, the other white decaying meat."
Yellow River pork will become a new delicasy, something on the order of 1000 year old eggs.
The thing that is the most troubling here is the amount of disease that will be "cultivated" by these dead pigs floating around in public water-ways.
Those public waterways in China are already so polluted and so devoid of life that a few thousand rotting pigs probably makes little to no impact. What are some pig guts compared to lead runoff and cyanobacteria blooms?
Is'nt this one of the harbingers of the apocalypse?
Don't forget the locust swarms in the Middle East.
The Tribulation FTW!
Lynchpin?
Seems the DOS is tugging on quite a few these days.
Maybe this is a Chinese version of U.S. style tax rebellion through a Beijing Pig Party?
I suspect that the chemical run-off does NOT breed bacteria. As you said, NOTHING can live in that environment. But take 4000 pigs washed up on the shore in the sun, and you have some rather fertile environments for strange bacteria and viruses. I'm not going back there for any amount of money.
There's some truth to that. I certainly would not want to be one of the residents of the area(s) where these pigs washed ashore.
Nonetheless, the chemical run-off does breed bacteria -- some of the nastiest kinds (from a human health perspective). This is Tai Lake:
http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/multimedia/photos/toxics/tai-lake/
In the long-term, the heavy metals, polymers, fertilizers, and industrial waste-water in the water are doing far more damage to human health than any kind of rotting organic matter.
Interesting.
How about "Toxic Glamour?"
http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/multimedia/slideshows/toxics/toxic-gl...
If these pigs had wings they'd be hydroplanes.
maybe the pigs drank the water.
wonder what type of virus killed these pigs? could it jump species? could it have been a designer virus?
Has anyone checked to see if the pigs were sporting designer lipstick?
I love Friday humor...
Oh wait!
I wonder what killed the pigs first. Getting shot or chemicals in the river?
Swine Flu!
dear mr/ms say what again - that's the funniest thing posted on this thread. why would anyone be concerned about diseases?
chinese local public was told the water was safe to drink and implicitly there was nothing wrong with pigs deciding to drown themselves,
somebody probably left the barn door open and they it was better than becoming sausage. or something like that.
or else they wanted to get to the other side.
dead animals in drinking water really isn't an issue. as many of the astute posters have pointed out, soup is soup.
what goes into soup? dead animals and a few onions.
Maybe this was actually a tax protest, and the disease thing is propaganda from the Chinese government.
Perhaps we should be calling it the Shanghai Pig Party.
I'm guessing it was the CIA
Bush did it.
This little piggy went to market,
This little piggy stayed home,
This little piggy had Peking Duck,
This little piggy had none,
And this little piggy went glub glub glub all the way home.
My guess is they are trying to improve the smell of Songjiang
...and the looks of Chengdu, so pigs poisoned by paint?
That's not unique to China, HH. Not that long ago, we had GI's spray painting the grass green (winter) during an expected visit from POTUS. We only had bird flu to worry about back then.
True. But there's a difference between spraying an ornamental lawn, and spray painting the grass you're grazing your pigs on. Feel free to insert your favorite "pork barrel" joke here.
Divided States said: "I am sure those pigs will make their way over here somehow..."
"Oh I wish I were an Oscar Mayer weiner..."
I'm surprised they don't have a portable hot dog production truck for that province.
Pork corks.
Mmmm... Bacon. Pay attention to the country of origin of the pork products you consume.
New Chinese Citizenism movie:
"A River Runs Through Shit".
"I'll have Pigs in a Wet Blanket please."
cHiNee citizenism show piggy can't swim. Speaking of, where's Anonomous in all this???
The parangong of US 'american' chinese citizenism is probably just blobbing-up and throating his mind at his nearest People's Liberation Opium Parlour and Internet Cafe.
Parangonglial blobbing up during the day while inhaling opiated sweet smoke from his Chairman Mao Little Red Hookah.
Ambition firmly the dangdang he fishes at night free river pig expeditiously. New river pig utilizations planning for JKC* Chinese citizenism fastfood franchise his endeavoring. Menu adding "Pig In A Wet Blanket" gives the wide profit margination prosperously.
*Just Killed Cat
.
It's playing on a double bill with "The Roadside Warrior".
Coming soon: "Bad Facts: Beyond CitizenismDome."
"A Boy and His Dog Wok"
"The Ugly US 'American' "
"How Brown Is My Valley"
"The Life of Poo"
since the topic is pigs its time for...... a quick survey of marry, fuck, kill.....first pig, hillary...second pig, the dead river pig and the final pig the honarable diane fienstein...good luck...
I don't get it. Are you saying you want to marry Hillary, fuck a dead bloated pig and then kill a senator? I don't even think they have a porno site for that fetish.
Now that's what I call "free float"
Salve those piggies up with some hand sanitizer and put the oven to broil. MMMMMMmmmm good.
MOoshoo shit.
Here is a simple yet effective health rule - never, ever eat anything that came from China.
Beijing, AP Newswire, March 12, 2013
'China Cuts Pork Projects by 5,916'
ROR!!!
for those of you who don't know. 'tilapia' is very common, 'popular' in supermarkets now. it's bred in china and frozen and defrosted here.
i wouldn't touch that with your .... as to fast food - i never eat it, so there's no telling what it is really made of, but i do on occasion
buy 'fresh' fish and this is clearly the worst of them. but - it's cheap.
River Pork: it's the other tilapia.
The number is a rough estimate since the assumption that any objects actually exist on the other side of the smog is only an inference.
Wait ....... are you talking real pigs or fiat pigs.
I'm holding out for the Feynman diagram of Quantum Pig Dynamics....
It's really just an issue of Schrodinger's Pig. These pigs are really all there (ask a bargeman) and they are also really not (ask a local PRC official).
Floating Pigs and Collapsing PIIGS...I see a trend
In situations like this, I guess the Saudi's are glad they have no rivers.
Touche. They also have no pigs. "Halalalalalalalalal!!!" {celebratory gunfire}
ROFL
pork water 1 yuan best swine flavored water in the east!
Looks like the latest pandemic is a success! Now where did the USA and Europe put their gold? Right, good thing we have strengthened our military debacle in the Pacific. Like to buy another oil lease Mr. Chen?
Animals have special senses. You know it's trouble coming when the pigs start committing mass suicide.
Politicians everywhere could learn from these pigs.
Now that's the kind of Hopium I can support.
CongressCritters floating in the Potomac...
"How high's the hogwash, mama? It's 5,916 and rising..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqOOuEImTQY
Poor pigs. The Chinese are pigs. F Communist China.
could be only 5,915. Kim Kardishian went for a swim this morning.
Piggs piggz!
Blame climate change. Never let a crisis go to waste.
Finally, a Chinese growth industry I can believe in.
Happy Po'k Family on rice wiv special General Shanghai sauce... fo' you, special price!
Are you sure Bernanke isn't just printing the pigs? That would explain an increase to infinity.
Sounds like Saint Bonzai Drove all the pigs outa china with the Brotha Bitchez!
A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms exposes a huge health and environmental scandal in our modern industrial system of meat and poultry production. Some scientists have gone so far as to call the condemned current factory farm practices as “mini Chernobyls.” In the U.S. and elsewhere, the meat and poultry industry is dominated by dangerous uses of arsenic, antibiotics, growth hormones and by the dumping of massive amounts of sewage in fragile waterways and environments. The film documents the vast catastrophic impact on the environment and public health as well as focuses on the individual lives damaged and destroyed
http://documentarylovers.net/river-waste-hazardous-truth-about-factory-farms/
Yup! Know your farmer, know how the animal was treated, and that your meat and animal products are what they are supposed to be.
Buy sustainable: http://www.certifiedhumane.org/
http://www.certifiedhumane.org/index.php?page=producers-products
They'll just have to eat more dogs and cats.
Shanghai river water the new bullion flavor
The real question is: Have they found horse meat in the pigs?
and will IKEA be having a sale shortly?
Could this be China's own version of Fukushima?
Have they really found what type of disease these pigs (I mean animals) are dying of. I need to schedule my swine flu shot.
There some farmers that post on ZH. How common is this that you would have such a die off. You would think that animals would be somewhat isolated so you could control this.
In China anything is possible....and I would not trust what they say.....but like I said below....they will eat them..you can bet on it..or use it for feed to other pigs...that is to much protein to waste....
Or they will simply sell the pork to another country. How many steps until it winds up in some Euro pork sausage lasagna product?
This is the country that had taken the oils and fats collected from the sewer grease seperators, reprocessed it, and then sold it back to restaurants. Yeah. There's gonna be a special on pork chops in China next week.
I take it the Chinese haven't heard of Allah & His Prophet Moham-mad?
At this rate, the number could reach DOW levels.
haha. you yankee devil. you think you rots of fun. you think you rilly crever.
chinese have culture 6,000 years, you still riving in caves.
buddha make the zero. zero rilly big. where is bernake rearn his zeros?
let me aware you, we know zeros. bernake make big zeros. rots of zeros. pigs die.
today we show you big pig. tomorrow rots of zeros.
It's probably just Ted Nugent:
http://www.guns.com/2013/03/12/aporkalypse-now-ted-nugent-kills-455-wild...
The link gets a "
404 Page Error" at that site.
Along with the explanation "We have led you astray. Sorry about that.",
there's a great gif on that 404 page. Definitely worth the page click!
Sorry about that. Here's the link to the Youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVecBww1vcE&list=PLE14A1A182AD82822&featu...
Somewhere in China there is an aftermarket for pork...this crisis will not go to waste...no pun entended...someone is going to eat this...they like it a day or two old....lol
Next week they'll be cat food in Walmart. I hope.
This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home
This little piggy had roast beef, this little piggy had none
This little piggy hacked into Justin Bieber's Facebook account
And this little piggy jumped to his death rather than live in a polluted, oppressive country
They have a pig for every family pot. No wonder the Chinesers at my college are over 6 foot tall and run like antelopes. Time to bring the jobs back to the US.
Bullish for chlorine.
Well they should have known...pigs can fly..they can´t swim.....
Now that Shanghai River
Is 3 miles wide
gonna float a dead hog bridge to the other side
Shanghai Woman
AnAnonymous Man
we get together
on the dead hog log jam
Shanghai River can't keep us apart
There's so much pork floating
we can just walk
a down vote. What the hell, did Conway Twitty take advantage of your drunk mama in '82 after that state fair concert, or what?
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Ah ah, much creativity give you display on this placement. Could be instant classic in Chinese citizenist musicalism genre Country & Eastern.
Musical improvisationalizings above are putting to my mind this Chinese Citizenism famous classic of days of glorious Cultural Revolvalutions fabled past, by group is all, Guess Hu:
Americanism woman, stay away from me
Americanism woman, roundeye let me be
Don't come blob-up around my door
I don't want your citizenism no more
I got more important things to do
Than save Tibetan 'foreign devils' with you
Now woman, I said stay away
Americanism woman, listen what I say
Americanism woman, get away from Mao
Americanism woman, eat a floating sow
Don't come wokkin' around my door
Don't wanna see your hygiene no more
Poisoned rice can hypnotize
As long as I can monolize
Now woman, I said get away
Americanism woman, listen what I say
Guess Hu...most excellent akak!
I HAVE to ask.....is this, or could this be tied to Rush's Tom Sawyer?
Jesus drove out demons from some crazed guy and into a herd of pigs who promptly jumped into a lake and drown....
From this we can deduce that ...
a. Jesus has returned and you all better look busy
b. Chinese are possessed by demons
c. The pope is the antichrist
d. all of the above
By the choices, answer D looks best.
My initial reaction was
Who killed the PIIGS and how can they be floating in a Chinese river?
Seriously though, this is concerning. Pigs don't just die of natural causes.
OUTBREAK!
Fukushima Piggery
The"dumping" of pigs is illegal! One provice blames another, is thisthe start of a sessionist state in China. Using dead pigs as a weapon?? What gives here???
WE want to know about the pigs in China Erin, not if smoke is comming out of a group of pediphiles meeting!
Could be GMO Chinese Manatee Pig hybrid. Maybe version 1.1 will be able to swim.
this is all bullshit...i often flavor my evian with a bit of putrid pig carcus i keep in a bottle on the counter in the hot sun. adds a flavor that i cant really describe...yum yum yum.....!
About time they try to decimate the population via biological try outs.
They should just ship em over to Findus. Who would know the difference?
there is nothing to worry about unless they start to fly....
Due to horse meat being the dominant flesh, these pigs found themselves unemployed....
Too many dead pigs spoiling your pot? We have a 5 year plan for that...
double post
The food component as a percentage of CPI is about 10 % in the protestant western countries according to the graph. But MSM spin told us we only spent 10 % of income on food ! Got it ?
Food prices could double and if the other 90 % component of
CPI runs some specials due to lack of demand,official consumer prices could DECREASE without even the need to reshuffle the CPI basket ! Take that !
So if your SNAP card or European equivalent beer allowance runs dry halfway through the month, prices did not rise,
you just became more of a loser.
I had no idea there were that many bankers in China to begin with. Wow.
Isn't this one of the signs of the Apocalypse:
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts, And I looked and behold: a pale pig. And his name, that sat on him, was DEBT. And Hell followed with him.
~ Book of Revaluations
Luckily there's plenty of creatures in the East China Sea that would be happy to eat rotting pigs. Snapping turtles, sharks, North Koreans, etc.
Judging from the first chart, we could expect to see a lot more pigs coming downstream. That's my humble economic prediction, LOL.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7CclVneVpw
I thought for sure they could get a Romanian meat processor to take them.
Those pigs must have really been in bad shape to be thrown in a river.
Amazing China is even disclosing this shit.
"The surge in the dumping of dead pigs — believed to be from pig farms in the upstream Jiaxing area in the neighboring Zhejiang province..."
Yeah, that's probably a good place to start looking for the source of this debacle...
where is Charlie Chan when we need him...
Really unclean!
And when the Chinese are reporting 6000, it's probably more like 60,000.
Makes one wonder. What nasty virus did these animals have before they were cheaply disposed of in the river?
Good thinking China. Homer Simpson would be proud.
+100 for the Homer Simpson movie reference. forgot how hilarious that was!
Based on what I saw offered the last time I was at the local Chinkateria all-you-can-eat buffet, I'm guessing this kind of thing isn't all that unusual.
Costco stopped selling the large bag chicken jerky strips made in China my dog loves. (Yes, he's still alive and well after eating them for 3 years).I expect to see the pork version showing up on the shelves any day now which I will NOT buy.
Piigs, bitches, just wait for the fish to follow.
Really, are these pigs confirmed dead or is this just a smokescreen to hide the real reason for foodprice inflation?
Another option: does the river full of dead pigs end anywhere near Senkaku?
You have to wonder if they culled the pigs after they were fed all of the available loaves of bakery over-production that for some reason didn't make it to market.
Glowing pig meat in china
http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/pictures/blue-glowing-pork-meat-found-in-...
I'm wondering why such an exact figure 5,916? I'm sure a few were missed in the count. Why not say 5900? Usually, when people are "too exact" I take it to mean they are lying. In which case, multiple by 3 and that is closer to the real answer.
Best observation of the day
Maybe some of the local farm bureaucrats finally got a hold of a few copies of "Animal Farm" and decided to prevent a potential coup against their administration.
Snowball Lives
Just imagine, if they don't have a problem throwing 6,000 eviscerated and highly visible dead pigs in a river - what else don't they have a problem with putting in the water?
BULLISH in the BULRUSH.