It’s Probably Nothing

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1. It might not be a bad idea to eliminate all the wold hogs in Western Canada. They could sure transmit disease and they definitely are not native.

   1. Agreed 100%.

      Not easily accomplished.

      1. Have .25-06. Will Travel.

2. Where this could be a big problem is the fact that pork is China’s largest source of cheap protein. China could lose up to 1/3 of their hog population or more. They are already switching to dogs and cats to make up for the pork they can no longer afford. 1.4 B hungry Chinese not pretty. Also they have had crop losses from army worm.
   https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/08/voracious-pest-threatens-chinas-crops-could-boost-need-for-imports.html

   China has 1.4B mouths to feed and only 7% of world’s arable land and 6% of world’s potable water.
   china’s food security situation – University of Alberta

   https://cloudfront.ualberta.ca/-/media/china/media-gallery/research/occasional-papers/food-securityanna-kuteleva201604.pdf
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   1 Apr 2016 … has 7% of the world’s arable land and 6% of the world’s surface fresh water supply. Over the past three decades, China has successfully lifted a …

   1. But on the other hand, they have the amazing agricultural efficiency that is inherent in a communist system ; ) ; )

3. Are these the apocryphal “Interesting Times”?

4. Were the wild pigs deliberately infected as a form of bio warfare? I don’t know anything about this, but it seems odd that wild pigs in Poland would be infected with African swine flu.

   1. I wonder if there is a group in Yurop that didn’t like pork and had a grudge, perhaps religious, against sausage eating Krauts… hmmmm…..

      Merkel you dumbkopf.

      1. @Semi Retired Conservative:
         Are the Joos to be blamed?

5. Massive opportunity for Canada’s hog Industry. No doubt the government will find a way to squander it.

   1. The Chinese “ban” on Canajun pork was lifted, which started with the Huawei situation was lifted only a couple weeks ago. No surprise at that since the Chinese are so dependent on pork as a staple. TruDOPE and Freeland tried to take credit at the time, but it had NOTHING to do with them at all.
      All it will mean here is more expensive pork prices here, so the Chinese can be strong.
      One would hope that Green Groper would use pork as collateral for the Chinese to reduce their 30% of world CO2 emissions, but only Canadian CO2 is killing the world.

      1. Absolutely right, Dan. China has its own swine flu epidemic which it is entirely unable to bring under control. The country simply doesn’t produce enough protein to feed its own population.
         https://www.canadiancattlemen.ca/2019/11/05/china-has-a-protein-crisis/

         None of this has anything to do with any supposed efforts on the part of Trudeau and Freeland.

   2. Or Piss it away for cheap.

6. China’s problem is that it has several times the population it can possibly feed. That is why the Communist Party is plotting to enslave and eventually exterminate us. They want our farmland.

   The correct approach to the problem, of course, is to saturate urban China with as many thermonuclear weapons as needed to reduce the Middle Kingdom’s population to a sustainable size. Let the survivors butcher each other for meat.

   1. geez Ass Kanadian, ewe off yer meds again???

      1. @NME666
         I am hoping he is being facetious. But it is a faint hope.
         However I had relegated him to ‘wacko job’ status a while back for his crazed mutterings.

   2. In truth, Chinese population growth has slowed dramatically. The main driver of population growth is an increasing life expectancy, but demographics suggest there will be a “baby shortage” for at least the next three decades, fueled in part by a poor woman-to-man ratio. It now has a population of 1.43 billion, and will probably peak out somewhere around 1.5.

7. well hillery should be careful now, so she don’t find her demise because of this

8. invest in our domestic pork futures immediately…..

   1. Long or short?

      1. Very funny.

9. The local-interest side of the story came in the mail a few days ago, coincidentally:

   https://greenandwhite.usask.ca/stories/fall-2019/where-the-wild-pigs-roam.php

10. All right.
    Wild pig is delicious, so much leaner and tastier than domestic.
    They can also reach weights of 600 lbs
    As especially if they dine on lambs or calves on a regular basis.
    Just wait until they start using the herd behaviour of the Mexican desert piggies, forget killer bees.
    Dogs and a short carbine/hi cal pistol are best.
    But in a pinch good dogs and a sharp knife are all you need.As kids we used an 8mm Mauser that dad brought back from Italy.
    Teaching the dogs to let go and fall back is the hardest part of using a rifle when pig hunting.

11. Time for another Cultural Revolution to thin the herd.

12. Germany is full of muslims now so it doesn’t matter if the sausage eaters go hungry.

13. ha ha ha !!!!
    I wonder what typical cheapskate short cut the chirese tried this time to cause the outbreak.
    I feel badly for the swine, influenza is never nice for any species.