How China’s massive pig farms created a serious pork supply glut
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“China’s massive pig farms spark a supply glut as hog prices hit 8-year low”
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“Vast hog farms – some rising 26 storeys high – have caused China’s pig herd to swell”
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Wikipedia entries provide general information about China but contain no data about hog farm structures or pig herd population trends.
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— China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the second-most populous country after India, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, representing 17% of the …
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China
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— Debate over democracy in China has existed in Chinese politics since the 19th century. Chinese scholars, thinkers, and policy-makers have debated about democracy, an idea which was first imported by W…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_China
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— The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area. Each region now considered part of the Chinese world has experienced periods of unity, fracture, prosperity, and strife. C…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China
“China’s pig prices have plunged to their lowest level in nearly eight years”
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Wikipedia entries about 2018 and China's population do not include any information about pig price levels or historical price data.
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— 2018 (MMXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2018th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 18th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21…
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— China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the second-most populous country after India, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, representing 17% of the …
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— An economic conflict between China and the United States has been ongoing since January 2018, when U.S. president Donald Trump began imposing tariffs and other trade barriers on China with the aim of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China–United_States_trade_war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China–United_States_trade_war
“Live pigs were selling for 11.05 yuan (US$1.60) per kilogram on average during the third week of March”
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— China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the second-most populous country after India, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, representing 17% of the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China
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— Chinese may refer to:
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Chinese people, people identified with China, through nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
Han Chinese, the dominant ethnic group of China
Zhong…
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— The China Syndrome is a 1979 American thriller film directed by James Bridges and written by Bridges, Mike Gray, and T. S. Cook. The film stars Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, and Michael Douglas (who also p…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Syndrome
“Prices are now at their lowest level since June 2018, according to financial data provider Wind”
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“Pork meat prices are also on the decline, sinking to 22 yuan per kilogram last week”
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“The hog glut was caused by the spread of industrial-scale farms in China’s pork industry over the past few years”
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“Industrial farming has compromised the quality of meat produced”
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