Foreign Meat Is Dropping Off the Menu in China as Local Pork Prices Fall - The Wall Street Journal

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China’s voracious appetite for imported meat is starting to wane, as domestic pork prices fall and consumer worries grow about the coronavirus lingering on food.

For more than two years, Chinese farmers have battled outbreaks of African swine fever, a highly contagious hemorrhagic disease that reduced the country’s domestic herds in 2019 by as much as 41%—or more than 100 million pigs—causing pork prices to more than double. The swine fever virus isn’t harmful to humans, but is almost always deadly in pigs and there is no...

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November 19, 2020 at 07:02PM
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Foreign Meat Is Dropping Off the Menu in China as Local Pork Prices Fall - The Wall Street Journal

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