Need to ponder over the regulation of pig breeding mode

In the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Shanghai is still busy with salvaging thousands of dead pigs. On March 13th, according to a report from the Central Television Station, 50 pig carcasses were found in the sewage of the Wulong River in Yichang, Hubei, on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. It has been highly rotted and the local government is now investigating the incident. I believe that in the next few days, these "drifting stories of dead pigs" will continue to occur, and all of them point to people's concern about whether livestock corpses are infected and will threaten water quality. The supervision of hog farming mode deserves our careful consideration.

People living on the banks of big rivers and rivers may have witnessed the corpses of livestock floating past. If this is not the case of dead pigs tens of thousands of bodies, and drifting to Shanghai as a financial center in the Mainland, I am afraid this will not be so sensational. In any case, concern about environmental pollution, even if it is sensitive to the spread of the epidemic, is better than nothing, especially since the current new type of SARS virus has started to plague around the world, and prevention is a must.

After the incident, under the public opinion's concern and pressure, the source of the dead pig has basically been locked into Jiaxing, Zhejiang, and it is just a matter of debate whether so many dead pigs are drifting on the river at the same time. Shanghai's quarantine department detected porcine circovirus in dead pigs, which is a contagious disease; Zhejiang authorities insisted that pigs were mostly “frozen” and had no epidemic; for Jiaxing, it was claimed. Although the earmarks for the dead pigs were from Jiaxing, this only represented the prevention of pig disease in the local area and it was not yet determined where to continue rearing. The so-called dead and no proof, if the responsibility is subdivided from a technical point of view, the results of tracing back to the source may already be foreseen.

No matter whether these animals are dying or dying, this is a different matter from the fact that pigs are plunged into rivers. The way to deal with the bodies of animals is to throw them into the river. Treatment of poultry carcasses in China has a set of plain standard procedures. It is worth pondering why these procedures have not been strictly enforced. According to different reports, one obvious reason is that the supply of pork supply companies actually comes from farmers in different villages. In these villages, pigs are often farmed and raised by farmers. They do not pay taxes. Therefore, in theory, the local authorities responsible for the “three wastes” (pig urine, pig manure, and dead pigs) that deal with raising pigs should not The cleaning fee is right, regardless of whether you can. At the same time, retailing pigs also poses another problem. Farmers try to reduce the number of vaccine injections, such as porcine circovirus, because the price of the vaccine is relatively high and they are not included in compulsory vaccination. Individuals are generally not given injections to pigs. Therefore, a logical assumption is that when a large number of pigs are infected, individual farmers have no strength to cope, and they have to let the pigs die of disease and throw them to the roadside or garbage dumps; for those who must clean up the garbage but must save costs, The simplest way is to throw these dead pigs into the river and let them drift away.

Before the exact investigation results came out, the above situation can only be a kind of joint force speculation, but if the truth is indeed the case, then the problem obviously lies in the above-mentioned lack of supervision of the minimum farming mode above. In those years, some milk stations collected dairy milk from individual dairy farmers, and only sought to lower prices regardless of whether the production process was in line with the standard. As a result, melamine was incorporated into the milk source, and finally the credibility of the entire industry was greatly undermined. Are these lessons not yet profound enough?