Hope Group News, house organ of China's largest producer of pig feed, heralds some grand ambitions.
Shenzhen Jinxinnong Feed, a Shenzhen-listed pig feed processor, says the company may invest in pig farming, too.
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That was back in the 1970s, when the cheesemakers' discarded whey was used as fertilizer and pig feed.
That was back in the 1970s, when cheesemakers discarded whey as fertilizer and pig feed--two of its loftier uses.
The hormone has also been found in pig feed used by 355 Dutch farms, and in feed shipped back to Belgium and to Germany, they said.
My oldest looks at it: an obese pig you feed supersize hamburgers.
Its advertising slogan -- "If your pig eats one kilogram of Hope feed, he will grow by two" -- can be seen on signs nationwide.
The grain is one of the key starting links in the country's food chain, used to make cooking oil, tofu products and in feed for the burgeoning pig industry.
The commission is infuriated that it was not alerted earlier and that, by June 9th, it had still not even been given a list of beef and pig farms that might have received contaminated feed.
Elsewhere, at the Anglesey Show, NFU Cymru said pig farmers were struggling to survive and that many might be out of business because of "rocketing feed costs and cheaper foreign imports".
They sold their quail for meat and hired technicians to develop pig food whose quality matched that of Thai agri-giant Charoen Pokphand, which then dominated the feed business in most of China, including Sichuan.
As many as 800 farmers have got out of pig production in recent years, while many of those remaining are depending on extended credit from banks and feed companies.
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