China's Breeding Giant Pigs That Are as Heavy as Polar Bears
In a farm deep in the southern region of China lives a very big pig that’s as heavy as a polar bear.
The 500 kilogram, or 1,102 pound, animal is part of a herd that’s being bred to become giant swine. At slaughter, some of the pigs can sell for more than 10,000 yuan ($1,399), over three times higher than the average monthly disposable income in Nanning, the capital of Guangxi province where Pang Cong, the farm’s owner, lives.
While Pang’s pigs may be an extreme example of the lengths farmers are going to fill China’s swelling pork shortage problem, the idea that bigger is better has been spreading across the country, home to the world’s most voracious consumers of the meat.
High pork prices in the northeastern province of Jilin are prompting farmers to raise pigs to reach an average weight of 175 kilograms to 200 kilograms, higher than the normal weight of 125 kilograms. They want to raise them “as big as possible,” said Zhao Hailin, a hog farmer in the region.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-06/china-is-breeding-giant-pigs-the-size-of-polar-bears?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=business
= new reply since forum marked as read
He told me that the question that threw everybody was, "Which meat is most consumed in the world?" (I don't remember the exact wording.)
He said that his answer was "chicken" because Jews and Muslims don't eat pork and Hindus don't eat beef. He figured that chicken was the default choice.
I immediately told him, "pork". (Which he had already learned at the contest, but I said it before he could tell me.)
My reasoning was that there are hardly enough Jewish people in the world to sway the numbers in any direction, even though there are a lot of Muslims. But the main reason I immediately thought "pork", is that I saw a PBS program about Chinese people raising pigs in their back yards. Then, a nanosecond later, I realized that the sheer population numbers for China was enough to overtake the numbers collected from any non-pork eating nation.
I'm not sure why I'm writing this. Maybe I just desperately need to explain how my brain works. 
