Miniature Pigs to be Bred in Singapore at Tuas

[Watchman]

Miniature Pigs to be Bred in Singapore
Submitted by Jimmy Peterson on 2010, May 23 - 12:03

Miniature Pigs to be Bred in SingaporeReports call them the made in Singapore mini pigs and they are popularly called as guinea pigs. According to the reports, Singapore would soon breed miniature pigs that would be 10 times smaller than a normal pig. The breeding would be undertaken for scientific research.

About 200 of miniature pigs would be bred in the current year by PWG Genetics which is a biomedical research company. The headquarters of the company is in South Korea, and the company plans to start the new facility for the breeding of the special pigs at Tuas.

Reports claim that the project is of InVivos, a company that is set up by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) and the National University of Singapore (NUS).

The project aims at meeting the demand for animals since Singapore is pushing for biomedical sciences to be an area of growth. The animals in the facilities would be used to test drugs, vaccines and other surgical methods.

Currently Singapore is a base camp that has 25 facilities which are licensed by the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) for animal research. These also include laboratories that are run by A*Star, NUS, health-care group SingHealth and companies like PWG.

According to a PWG spokesman the demand for miniature pigs alone in Singapore is about 1,000 a year. Since normal pig weigh more than 100kgs within a year it poses a difficulty in their handling, hence the idea of guinea pigs was introduced.

 

[butoh6050]

One more place where the mats will lose out on jobs.

 

[myfoot123]

The pigs living in ivory tower counted? Their meats already getting tough and lost its productive life. Costly to maintain, time to slaughter them.

 

[lianbeng]

hahaha........
laugh till tummy pain pain liao.
back to kampong days again?
or George Orwell's Animal Farm reincuntnated?

 

[zuoom]

erm, didn't the govt rule out all forms of pig farmming from long time back?

 

[saratogas]

Breed for lab test! Cruel to animals... eat like suckling pig.

 

[Alamaking]

Test on their own sperm instead lah, cruel bastards :oIo::oIo::oIo:

 

[wikiphile]

Shouldn't we be focusing on the RnD on how to make pigs bigger, tastier and not serving us crappy 1/10th of a suckling pig?

 

[cheekenpie]

Swine flu part 2 coming soon to the jurong residents!

 

[johnny333]

Spore seems to be back peddling on alot of things.

The schools that were located downtown were relocated to the suburbs. Only to have Universities , educational institutions,... occupy the sites that were vacated.

Years ago pig farming was phased out & now it makes a comes back.

Gambling which was a no, no is now ok if its done at authorised places.

Looks like if your connected you can do just about anything

 

[Slim_10_Sg]

That is what they are making. More BBQ Ah Seng!