Regardless of whether the mysterious "prospective son-in-law" of the Lin family was an expert or not, there was one thing that President Luo had guessed.
That is the epidemic, which indeed broke out two months ago!
About two months ago, the medical laboratory of the North American Livestock Slaughter and Quarantine Association discovered a highly contagious new swine fever virus during a routine epidemic prevention inspection on the ranch of North American breeding giant Tiger Food Group. .
This virus is very evil. Animals in the early stage of infection show almost no clinical adverse reactions. It is not until 24 to 28 weeks that they show malignant symptoms such as fever and skin ulcers, and they will die within 1 to 2 weeks after the onset of the disease.
If it is slaughtered within 24 weeks, without detailed examination and medical analysis in a professional virus laboratory, it will be almost difficult to distinguish the difference between sick pork and healthy pork. Even not all parts of pigs diagnosed with infection can be distinguished. Pathogens were detected intensively.
Although this virus is not transmitted from person to person, people who eat infected pork will develop a fever, and may even develop severe symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, and even coma depending on the severity of the virus.
Even if it is stewed at high temperature, it is difficult to completely eliminate the effects!
And the most frightening thing is that although humans themselves will not be infected with the virus, they may become a vector for the virus and infect other pigs through excrement or other metabolic forms.
If we had started to actively carry out epidemic prevention work at that time, this plague may not have been controllable. The problem is, this is almost impossible.
Agriculture is the backbone of the North American economy, and livestock industry is the most important part of the North American agricultural structure.
Especially pig farming.
After all, Xia Guo, the leader of the People's Federation, is the world's largest pork consumer. In order to earn soft money, most pastures in North America mainly focus on pork, followed by beef, which is consumed more in the country.
This industrial structure was formed in the first two years of the People's Federation integration process. And the breeding companies in North America are really doing their best, and they have gained a lot of high technology through pork.
In recent years, pork exports have hit new highs every year. In order to improve productivity, major farms in North America have also made every effort to squeeze the production efficiency per unit area to the limit.
If this epidemic report spreads, it will undoubtedly be a heavy blow to local breeding companies in North America.
In particular, the ranch where the swine fever virus was first detected is the breeding ranch of Tiger Foods, the largest breeding company in North America.
If the outside world knew that Tiger Foods' pastures were contaminated by the swine fever virus, it would not only threaten the survival of Tiger Foods as a breeding company, but also the entire North American pork export industry would be hit hard!
This is not only related to North America’s source of foreign exchange earnings, but also related to thousands of jobs and the source of livelihood for tens of thousands of families.
If they go bankrupt, the impact will probably be more uncomfortable for North America than swine fever.
Therefore, under pressure from the North American Department of Agriculture and vested interests, the North American Livestock Slaughter and Quarantine Association finally chose to compromise and conceal the report.
Although this does not mean giving up treatment, continuing to give birth while preventing the epidemic is obviously equivalent to cutting flesh to mend sores. Tiger Foods also has a very negative attitude towards epidemic prevention. It is obviously more concerned about the sales of the more than 10 million "products" that are sold every year than the epidemic. In order to ship as much as possible before the trap is broken, it even cuts prices. A price war started.
This is one of the main reasons why pork imports from various countries surged in October and small and medium-sized farms in various countries closed down.
However, paper cannot cover the fire after all. As the infection area continues to expand, it has even invaded the cold chain transportation and food processing fields. In just two months, almost the entire West Coast pastures have fallen.
It wasn't until the import and export port on the east coast of Xia State detected abnormal pathogens in imported pork and sent it to the medical laboratory for analysis that this layer of window paper was completely broken.
Good guy!
I bet all the pork sent by this friendly country is poisonous? !
The only good thing is that most of the stocks put on the market in the previous month were frozen stocks, as well as some pork that was obtained after slaughtering adult pigs that had no symptoms of infection or were infected for a short period of time.
After this part of the meat is shipped, what will be put on the market next are the "inferior products" obtained after the slaughter of sick pigs that show clinical symptoms.
After discovering the problem, Xiaguo Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center and Customs immediately issued an orange alert and urgently closed the pork import channel from North America to Xiaguo ports.
This time I couldn't hide it at all.
Facing more and more doubts, the North American Livestock Slaughter and Quarantine Association finally could no longer withstand the pressure, admitted the failure of epidemic prevention work, and confessed the swine fever epidemic that had been concealed for two full months.
Public opinion in the international community was naturally in an uproar.
Regarding this new type of swine fever virus, instead of taking immediate action, regulatory authorities in North America turned a blind eye, helping large farmers to hide the truth and cover up pork exports.
Countries in the League of People have condemned this extremely irresponsible behavior and North America's serious dereliction of duty in epidemic prevention and control. Other countries that import pork from North America have also issued orange or even red warnings.
The impact of the swine fever epidemic on the North American livestock industry is obvious. Almost all pastures from the west coast to the central part have been destroyed. The largest pork producer in the People's Federation has directly passively closed the pork export channel because no one dared to buy it.
Apart from North America, the most uncomfortable person is probably Xia himself, the world's largest pork consumer.
In fact, Xia Guo doesn't think highly of this kind of industry that has pollution risks and low added value, not to mention that the country's cultivated land resources are very scarce.
Rather than developing animal husbandry, it is far better to build a few more chip factories. Not only can it drive a large number of industries, but it can also increase the trade weight of the national currency among the countries of the People's Alliance. You can just use money to exchange for what you need.
But now...
Obviously the epidemic is across the Pacific Ocean, but foodies on this side of the Pacific are suffering together.
The pork that has arrived at the shore must not be eaten, and the pork that has not been shipped out in the port warehouse should also be destroyed. Even the problematic pork that has entered the market must be recalled as much as possible.
As for those container ships floating on the sea...
We can only let them go back to where they came from.
And in order to prevent them from dumping the pork into the sea and spreading the virus into the marine ecosystem, the boat of the People's Federation of Environmental Protection Organization followed them almost every step of the way, watching them go back.
Just when the pork market was bleak, the futures market also staged a drama of ice and fire. North American pork futures plummeted and even fell short of positions near the delivery date. Many "pork treasurers" with heavy positions suffered heavy losses.
However, the price of pork futures in Xia State has risen like an antenna.
Magical scenes were staged at the entrances of major slaughterhouses—that is, trucks full of pigs of various sizes were dragged into the slaughterhouse, and trucks full of pigs were driven out of the slaughterhouse there.
The pigs crowded in the truck didn't even know that they had somehow wandered around the gate of hell and then returned.
The bosses of the breeding bases who had already cleared their stocks were in tears. Most of them had caught wind of the plummeting pork prices early, and before they had even had time to cash out and be happy for a month, they found themselves cutting meat at the foot of the mountain.
This feeling is even more sour than riding a roller coaster...
Even if the "premature meat" stocks created by the bankruptcy of a large number of small and medium-sized breeding bases are enough to be digested for several months, the market itself, which is governed by emotions, cannot be measured purely rationally.
The wholesale price has not moved yet, but the pork market has begun to heat up.
Almost as soon as he closed and opened his eyes for the whole night, the old man selling vegetables in the market saw the price of meat rising by one dollar.
What's more, he even went back to buy some fish and picked up a bunch of leeks. When he came back, he looked completely different. A pound of fish increased by fifty cents on the spot!
Good guy, the price has risen so much that it’s like a rocket!
Everything happened so suddenly, without even the slightest precaution.
In the three days after the autumn recruitment meeting, Hao Yun found all this news one after another from the Internet or heard it from Lin Jun, who was so impressed that he admired it.
To be honest, after hearing the news, although his expression was relatively calm, his heart was completely confused.
Speaking of which, how many piglets are there in New Hope Farm
Twenty thousand? Twenty-five thousand
In short, the fraction can be erased directly.
this time…
He may have really gotten rich!