Does eating pork in China equal suicide? Viral warning from a farmer's wife draws attention again
Recently, mainland online networks have once again circulated a warning from a "pig-farming farmer's wife" telling everyone that eating pork in China is suicide, and revealing some of the mainland pig-farming industry's "tricks" for making pigs grow and reach market weight as quickly as possible.
Recently, articles have been circulating on mainland Tianya Forum and WeChat. A Sichuan "pig-farming farmer's wife" said that nowadays a piglet weighing just over 10 jin can be raised to a mature pig of 200 to 300 jin in only 5 to 6 months, and that this method is used by tens of thousands of specialized pig farms across the country.
She said that whether large or small, pigs must eat 2 to 3 jin of feed every day, fed in 2 meals. The feed is made by mixing 100 jin of grain with several dozen jin of additives. Additives are the key to making pigs grow.
From just over 10 jin to over 50 jin, piglets that eat feed mixed with additives gain more than 1 jin of meat per day. When piglets grow to over 50 jin, they also eat 2 to 3 jin of feed per day and begin drinking large amounts of water, gaining 2 to 3 jin of meat per day. At this point the pigs begin to show a phenomenon of sleeping almost 24 hours a day, except when they are woken by being hit during feeding.
When the pigs reach 100 jin, for every 100 jin of feed, in addition to mixing in additives, several jin of chemical fertilizer urea granules must also be added, which can make the pigs' hair shiny and beautiful so they sell for a good price. But pigs fattened rapidly by eating feed mixed with additives must be sold at around 200 to 300 jin, otherwise the pigs cannot stand up.
The farmer's wife also said that the main ingredients of the additives in the feed include large amounts of hormones, sleeping pills and many other drugs. Therefore, almost none of the specialized pig farmers eat the pigs fattened with additives. Instead, they specially raise a few pigs that are never fed feed mixed with additives, for their own families to eat. These pigs not fed additives need 12 months to reach 200 jin.
Pig liver, pig blood and pig lungs contain the most toxins, and it is best not to eat them. In addition, the manufacturers and salespeople connected to the feed industry basically do not eat pork.
This article circulating online is actually old news. It was already circulated many years ago, and it circulates once every few years.
There are also articles saying that apart from pigs, all chickens, ducks, fish, cattle and sheep are fed using similar "combination feed."
It is reported that the hormones in feed additives that stimulate pigs' growth rate are cheap and extremely low-grade. This low-grade hormone is very harmful to the human body, especially to young people who are still developing. It can cause girls below the appropriate age to begin menstruating early, trigger illness in the elderly, and so on. To make pigs' skin red and their hair shiny, arsenic (white arsenic) is added to the feed. To make pigs sleep after eating, sedatives are added to the feed.
After these chemical drugs and chemical preparations are ingested by people, they deposit in the human body, causing extremely bad harm to human growth and development, and can induce various long-term discomfort symptoms, painful diseases and even ultimately cancer.