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wtmusic

(39,166 posts)
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 02:38 PM Mar 2013

Chinese Aporkalypse Count Surpasses 16,000

Last edited Fri Mar 22, 2013, 03:09 PM - Edit history (1)



"The number of dead pigs recovered in the last two weeks from rivers that supply water to Shanghai has risen to more than 16,000.

The government in China's financial hub said 10,570 carcasses had been pulled from its Huangpu river. That is in addition to 5,528 pigs plucked from upstream tributaries in the Jiaxing area of Zhejiang province.

Authorities give daily updates, telling the public that tests show Shanghai's water is safe, but no official has given any full explanation about the massive dumping of pig carcasses."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/22/dead-pigs-chinese-river-rises
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Chinese Aporkalypse Count Surpasses 16,000 (Original Post) wtmusic Mar 2013 OP
ugh! wth? ZRT2209 Mar 2013 #1
What the hell is going on there?!!!!! nt rdharma Mar 2013 #2
Crest toothpaste is now made in China!!! Laf.La.Dem. Mar 2013 #3
AYFKM!? FirstLight Mar 2013 #4
This could be what it takes to bring back the McRib sandwich. nt eppur_se_muova Mar 2013 #5

Laf.La.Dem.

(2,936 posts)
3. Crest toothpaste is now made in China!!!
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 02:46 PM
Mar 2013

China does not have those evil "regulations"


Big deal - a few dead pigs in the water!!

FirstLight

(13,352 posts)
4. AYFKM!?
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 03:42 PM
Mar 2013

I cannot believe that the W.H.O is not looking into this further. The quiet about the cause has me thinking this is more like an outbreak of something narly...and the carcasses in the drinking water? hello! So you wanna see how fast whatever disease it is can cross over to humans on a mass scale?

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