Big pig business in China

[CPF]

Got told about this this afternoon so just had a quick look
26 Story building pig farm going to Slaughter over 1 million pigs a year.

 

[vantage]

Vertical farming!
I wonder do the pigs start at the top or the bottom of the building? I suppose logic says top, less feed and crap to move up top.

 

[CPF]

 

[Vader]

China’s 26-storey pig skyscraper ready to slaughter 1 million pigs a year

The world’s biggest single-building pig farm has opened in Hubei province, but critics say it will increase the risk of larger animal disease outbreaks

www.theguardian.com

 

[Cab-over Pete]

There was a thread about this about a month or so back.

 

[CPF]

There was a thread about this about a month or so back.

There other one now

 

[thorpe]

There other one now

i bet our 4 have left more behind than all there thousands, not much profit , even with no labour charge but the eating quality OOH ! repeat orders quing up , ffs do i want the work?

 

[Flatlander]

Was talking with the hog boss from a Hutterite colony yesterday and this was mentioned. Apparently with the African swine flu running rampant across China these type of buildings can only be breeding grounds of disease. True testament to why big businesses shouldn’t be in farming.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Was talking with the hog boss from a Hutterite colony yesterday and this was mentioned. Apparently with the African swine flu running rampant across China these type of buildings can only be breeding grounds of disease. True testament to why big businesses shouldn’t be in farming.

These buildings are a reaction against disease. Positive air pressure and movement of slaughter stock down the building are part of it.

The workers will have strict biosecurity controls. Some firms make them stay in a secure camp for 6weeks on 2weeks off rota.

 

[Welly Warmer]

Isn't that so the workers don't escape like at Foxconn.
Also is that a purpose built structure or one of the many abandoned office/flats blocks that they can't get occupied.
How can multi storey ever make sense for pigs - especially that many floors.
For sure, they love a pig but they already have land and transport infrastructure.

 

[neilo]

Isn't that so the workers don't escape like at Foxconn.
Also is that a purpose built structure or one of the many abandoned office/flats blocks that they can't get occupied.
How can multi storey ever make sense for pigs - especially that many floors.
For sure, they love a pig but they already have land and transport infrastructure.

Save on heating and can be pretty well sealed against disease ingress (but a hell of a mess if it does get in).

 

[beardface]

Was talking with the hog boss from a Hutterite colony yesterday and this was mentioned. Apparently with the African swine flu running rampant across China these type of buildings can only be breeding grounds of disease. True testament to why big businesses shouldn’t be in farming.

My first thought was what if ASF got in there. May aswell just turn off the fans and kill the lot. Be interesting to see there nutrient management plan......

 

[Welly Warmer]

But but but...
It's a high rise building so it's in an area of high land value. It is on the "outskirts of a city".
A high land value area of a city must be heavily populated.

With the best airflow management in the world the smell will be epic, could you imagine that on the "outskirts" of Manchester or Edinburgh or London. It makes no sense.

The volume of food in and waste out - on city streets with city traffic is a logistics nightmare. Even on the outskirts of a city.

Cities tend to grow so the area around the facility will become only more urban over time so the traffic will get worse and the facility will become further from the source of feed and the destination for muck.

It looks like a Chinese version of "vertical farming will feed the world" which we regularly hear over here.

 

[britishblue]

Have a look on u tube about all the brand new unoccupied cities in China. There are millions of homes not selling(whole cities). Plenty new buildings for pigs.

 

[Hilly]

Have a look on u tube about all the brand new unoccupied cities in China. There are millions of homes not selling(whole cities). Plenty new buildings for pigs.

Why?

 

[spin cycle]

I was repulsed when I saw the building...but objectively it"s no worse than single storey buildings spread out

however....given china's record on 'superbug" production it'll likely "hatch" somat far worse than swine flu

 

[Welly Warmer]

Logistically pigs in a high rise is nonsense. Imo.
Disease risk is the nail in the coffin.

 

[Hilly]

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Logistically pigs in a high rise is nonsense. Imo.
Disease risk is the nail on the coffin.

why ? Elevator ?

 

[Flatlander]

These buildings are a reaction against disease. Positive air pressure and movement of slaughter stock down the building are part of it.

The workers will have strict biosecurity controls. Some firms make them stay in a secure camp for 6weeks on 2weeks off rota.

I’d imagine they would have tight biosecurity controls but if this flu can cross from country to country when pigs don’t travel fir business or pleasure and spread covid like us humans did. How can the ASF be kept out. China must be the home of the small farmer with a pig or two and a handful of chickens. Too big of a disease pool for it not to enter and run a mock. PED swept thru pig barns here in Manitoba. bio security on every farm is very strick. Even for me going to the feed mill with wheat I wasn’t allowed in the same area as staff making the feed, if I had been a pig farmer too I’d have no chance to deliver grain there thru fear of contamination

 

[Alias]

According to the commentary on the video, all the traditional pig pens in rural areas have been forcibly removed due to environmental protection requirements. So all the farmers have been stopped to allow big business to completely control the market. There's no room for any sentiment in China