Much talk and discussions and arguments in Malaysia, the new way of life is started in China.
Is pork a disease or the economy?
Read here:
Pork 101: Nutrition Facts and Health Effects
Only the non critical thinking people still follow the religion text but not living in the internet age.
Enjoy the life of pigs in high rise building.
China Opens 26-Storey Pig Skyscraper, With More Under Construction
Inside Ezhou, a city in China's Hubei province, sits one of the strangest buildings on Earth: a 26-storey pig skyscraper built by the private company Hubei Zhongxin Kaiwei Modern Farming. Actually, there are two of them, standing side by side, together forming what many call the largest pig-farming structure in the world. Chinese social media nicknamed them the Bajie Buildings, after Zhu Bajie, the pig character from the classic novel Journey to the West. The towers cost roughly 4 billion yuan (about 560 to 570 million US dollars) to build, offer around 800,000 square metres of floor space between them, and can hold about 650,000 pigs at any one time. Between the two towers, the site produces an astonishing 1.2 million pigs a year, about 600,000 per tower, which works out to roughly 54,000 tonnes of pork annually from a single tower alone. Giant freight elevators, six per tower and each capable of carrying around 240 pigs, move animals between floors all day long, turning what looks like an apartment block into a fully vertical farm. This video explores why China decided to stack a pig farm into the sky instead of spreading it across the ground. China eats roughly half of all the pork consumed on the planet, making it the country's most important staple meat, but in 2018 and 2019 African swine fever tore through the national pig herd, wiping out huge numbers of animals and sending prices soaring. With farmland scarce and tightly protected, and the old open-shed farming system exposed as dangerously easy for disease to spread through, the Chinese government changed the rules in 2019 to allow multi-storey pig farms, building on smaller 7-to-13-storey "pig hotels" already tested in Guangxi. Ezhou took the concept further than anyone before, reaching 26 floors, each one a sealed, self-contained farm with independent air filtration, automated climate control, and more than 30,000 automatic feeding points so an outbreak on one level never reaches another. The towers even convert manure into roughly 120,000 cubic metres of biogas a day, generating their own electricity and heating while producing fertiliser as a byproduct. Part engineering marvel, part food-security solution, and part animal-welfare talking point, this is the inside story of how China solved a pork crisis by building farms that grow upward instead of outward.
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