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China Admits African Swine Fever Now Endemic Across the Country
September 9, 2019
CHINESE officials are worried that a potential 10 million tonne pork shortage caused by the impact of African Swine Fever could spoil upcoming Chinese New Year and other celebrations, trade reports suggest.
Meat trade news service Dim Sums carried a report based on a transcript of a speech made by China’s Vice Premier Hu Chunhua, ordering local officials to bolster pork supplies.
Would You Eat a Lab-Grown Duck Breast? Inside the Alternate Meat Industry
July 29, 2019
The laboratories of Memphis Meats are located in Berkeley, California, next to a juice bar and a small-batch coffee roaster, and not far from Alice Waters’s Chez Panisse, the Shangri-la of farm-to-table restaurants. Here, in a newly renovated brick building on a quiet, tree-lined street, a group of scientists is rethinking meat production at the molecular level — which is to say, completely. Their novel approach both upholds and upends everything that the patron saints of Berkeley’s sustainable food movement hold dear.
Fecal Microbiota Transplant is Novel Approach for Circoviruses
July 29, 2019
The most recent analysis of the cost of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus to the United States alone is $664 million annually. Since its introduction into the United States nearly 30 years ago, the PRRS virus has cost the nation’s swine industry an estimated $14 billion in production losses.
Pig Gut Health: Exposing Some Hidden Corners
July 29, 2019
In times of fewer antibiotics or zinc oxide, the theme of gut health is ‘hot’ in pigs. Sometimes innovative feed ingredients or additives may have a positive impact, others lose their benefit once management is top-notch as well. Pig management expert John Gadd summarises his views.
