Posted on 03/10/2014 2:47:13 PM PDT by aimhigh
A fast-spreading virus that can kill 80 percent of piglets that contract it is rapidly spreading across Missouri hog farms, wiping out entire nurseries in some cases.
Porcine epidemic diarrhea has killed 4 million to 5 million pigs nationwide, or about 4 percent of the pigs that would go to market later this year, The Joplin Globe reported. . . . .
"We're adding 300 farms per week to the list of infected farms. I think most all will wind up with the disease," Plain said. "The average slaughter age is 6 months. So we will see the impact of this in six months. We do know it has impacted the futures market for hog contracts. We're at record levels now."
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Checked the price of bacon lately? A pound will run you $6 or more.
I wonder how it is being transmitted. It’s not like the pigs go visiting relatives at nearby farm.
How is it spread?
/Conspiracy mode on
China just bought Smithfield the nation’s largest pork producer. Does Smithfield own pork farms, and are they being affected to? Or could this be a dastardly Chinese plot to destroy pork competition and increase the payback of their ill-gained investment?
/Consipiracy mode off
How is it spread?
/Conspiracy mode on
China just bought Smithfield the nation’s largest pork producer. Does Smithfield own pork farms, and are they being affected to? Or could this be a dastardly Chinese plot to destroy pork competition and increase the payback of their ill-gained investment?
/Consipiracy mode off
A recent outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus in Canada had officials looking at possible sources, including porcine plasma protein, a common feed ingredient in early weaning diets.
Plasma protein, according to the University of Kentucky, is dried plasma from cattle or pig blood that is collected at slaughter facilities throughout the U.S. The plasma is separated from the blood and goes through a drying process before being shipped as a feed ingredient.
On the shoes of FDA inspectors?
Sounds possible.
Didn’t learn anything from Mad Cow disease. Dumb asses.
Come on PETA. Get going on a new membership drive so I can afford meat.
I wonder if the millions of wild pigs in Texas and Oklahoma will be hit? They are a plague and a pestilence, and it is year around open season on them.
About 750,000 of them are killed every year, and it is not making a dent on their 2,000,000+ population, which reproduces at a staggering clip.
I think you may have something there, for me the conspiracy mode is still on.
I mean in a conspiracy the first thing you look for, like murder is...MOTIVE!
Under $4 at Aldi. Good stuff, too.
These virus come up every 10 years or so and the industry figures out how to get on top of things..
A vaccine has just been developed I heard today.
Look for petrie dishes full of enteric bacteria in your local mosques.
If the Muslime brohood is taking over the US, they must get rid of the pigs first and then the Christians.
I’m from Missouri and I know someone with a hog operation I’m going to ask him about it.
So what are the Jooooooos? Chopped liver???
Now that’s a good one too, more than plenty of motive there.
Why would anyone pay more for a pig with a virus?
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