Pork, bacon prices likely to spike after China’s swine fever outbreak
Bacon and pork product prices in Canada and across the world are expected to spike as a result of theThe disease is killing thousands of pigs in China -- one of the world’s largest pork producers -- which is wreaking havoc in the“It’s having a huge impact on the population of the world,” University of Guelph professor Robert Friendship told CTVNews.ca over the phone.
“[Pork] prices are likely going to go up until this issue with African swine fever is corrected,” he said. “And it looks like that could take quite a while … it’s going to get worse, before it gets better.” A worker sorts pig carcasses at the Tianhe pork processing factory in Guangzhou, in south China's Guangdong province Monday, Aug. 6, 2007. “The meat of choice in China is pig and disease has been devastating for them,” Friendship said. “They have lost a lot of pigs and they will be doing lots of culling.”
“Despite the tariffs and trade wars going on, they’re coming out and buying pig meat and that’s starting to affect prices in North America,” Friendship said. “The rest of the world does not produce enough pig meat.”"we expect it to be a five to seven year problem before production can be restored." Friendship blamed China’s documented practice of feeding pigs human kitchen waste for helping to spread the disease.
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