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Not blue pill.. but laughter's best medicine
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Douglas Potter
8 August 2009
Recognition
Thanks to a visit by Bill Clinton, North Korea released and pardoned two detained American journalists.
Steve Greenberg
9 November 2009
Seeing the future
If one could foresee the future, it likely will not be a very encouraging one.
China's putting pigs in 13-storey 'hog hotels' to keep germs out
BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) - China is taking hog biosecurity to new levels - 13 storeys in fact.
That's the height of a building in southern China where more than 10,000 pigs are kept in a condominium-style complex, complete with restricted access, security cameras, in-house veterinary services and carefully prepared meals.
The seemingly luxurious conditions represent a state-of-the-art approach to biosecurity in which pigs - the main source of meat in China - are shielded from viruses, including the devastating African swine fever that wiped out half the nation's hogs in the two years before the coronavirus pandemic emerged.
Nicknamed "hog hotels," these gigantic vertical farms are being built by companies, including Muyuan Foods and New Hope Group, emulating the strict controls major suppliers in other countries have used to prevent outbreaks of the devastating disease.
China is copying best-practices from Europe and the US to close its biosecurity gap, said Mr Rupert Claxton, the UK-based meat director at consultant Gira, who has been providing advice to farmers and businesses for two decades.
"In 20 years, it's done what the Americans took probably 100 years to do," he said.
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