A Mount Everest of Sewage and Dangerous Viral Soup
Dongxing City is just one example of how 80 million people in Guangdong Province live close to the animals, poultry, and fish they eat. At a piggery close to Mrs. Yang’s, a farmer keeps young chickens next to his pigs. All the piggeries empty their waste into the ponds where shrimp and grass-carp are raised for the table. In other places, battery chickens are kept above the pig pens, feeding their waste into the pigs’ food troughs.
The close proximity and cross pollution adds to the risk of animal viruses infecting humans, either directly or via pigs. “It’s a complete soup of chemicals and viruses,” says Christine Loh, a former legislator.
—Sydney Morning Herald
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