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sojusucks
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 Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 8:07 pm Post subject: FMD heating up |
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I remember when the bird flu was pretty bad and a lot of poultry had to be killed. It looks like the same thing with pigs, etc. with foot and mouth disease (FMD).
http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/article839713.ece/Outrage-as-South-Korea-battles-disease
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Outrage as South Korea battles disease
Jan 9, 2011 12:03 AM | By Staff Reporter and Reuters
More than a million pigs were buried alive in South Korea this week, leading to widespread criticism as the country battled to contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.
Sky News quoted a spokesman of an animal protection organisation, Compassion in World Farming, as saying: "This is totally contrary to international guidelines on humane culling, which the Korean government endorsed five years ago.
"We urge the Korean government to end this horrendous practice at once and to ensure that, if animals are culled, it is done humanely."
The outbreaks of the disease threaten to keep pushing up prices of beef and pork in Asia's fourth-largest economy.
Hundreds of thousands of officials have been working day and night to slaughter the animals and vaccinate more than 1.2 million more.
About 1.1 million beasts have been destroyed, or about 8% of South Korea's pigs and cattle.
The country is also battling bird flu.
The government said: "Beef supply is getting unstable as slaughter places are shut down, and the transfer of animals is blocked due to foot-and-mouth disease."
The government said that, with the Chinese New Year being celebrated from February 2 to 6, beef prices were "expected to continue rising through a high-demand season" - the country's biggest holiday.
Retail prices of beef and pork on Thursday soared 10% and 11% respectively from Wednesday.
President Lee Myung-bak on Thursday called an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss the disease, which affects sheep, cows and pigs. However, the disease and meat from infected animals are not harmful to humans. |
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/01/113_79354.html
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01-08-2011 23:17
Korea confirms more FMD cases near Seoul
The government confirmed additional cases of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) Saturday at three pig farms in cities just outside of Seoul.
The three latest cases were confirmed at pig farms in Pyeongtaek, Yongin and Anseong, all in Gyeonggi Province, which surrounds the capital.
The additional cases now brought to 102 the number of confirmed FMD cases in the country that reported the first confirmed case in the latest outbreak on Nov. 29, according to Yonhap News Agency.
The first confirmed case was reported at two pig farms in Andong, a city located some 270 kilometers southeast of Seoul.
The Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry reported the disease has since spread to most parts of the country with over 1.2 million animals already destroyed or subject to culling as of Friday, Yonhap said. |
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PEIGUY
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Omokgyo
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| I'm surprised how quickly it spread. I remember reading something about manure vehicles carrying it from farm to farm which would make sense. Bird Flu is back again isn't it? this is going to send meat/chicken prices even higher than they're now. |
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sojusucks
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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Note: Bird flu was an example from the past. I don't think it is back.
The prices will remain stable in the short-term because many are slaughtering their herds to prevent a total loss. But, in the long run, prices will eventually increase because of limited supply.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2930867
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For healthy cows, a rush to slaughter
�농민들 앞다퉈 도축 � 순번 받으려 하루 노숙�
January 12, 2011
CHEONGJU, North Chungcheong - Slaughterhouses are working overtime as farmers rush cows and pigs to market before they get infected with foot-and-mouth disease.
Farmers particularly don�t want to miss out on the Lunar New Year holiday, which is when Koreans celebrate by eating beef and pork.
In FMD-infected areas, farmers aren�t allowed to butcher their cows and pigs and sell them at market. But in virus-free regions such as Daejeon, farmers are desperately waiting at slaughterhouses, worried that foot-and-mouth disease could reach their area at any moment.
Lee Hong-geun, a 41-year-old farmer, stood for hours in front of a slaughterhouse in Ojeong-dong, Daejeon, waiting to get in with his cows.
�It�s been almost four hours since I got here,� Lee said. �I�ll be the last to get my cows butchered. I have never waited this long before.�
Five trucks unloaded cows at the entrance to the Ojeong-dong slaughterhouse, and in a parking lot behind the building, about 50 cows waited for their turn to die. The slaughterhouse said it killed about 150 cows yesterday, 50 more than usual.
�We can�t receive any more cows right now because we�ve reached capacity,� said Kim Jae-sik, manager of the slaughterhouse. �Farmers are flocking here because the government shut down two major slaughterhouses in Cheongwon and Jecheon in North Chungcheong.�
In Okcheon, North Chungcheong, the small Macwoo slaughterhouse said it couldn�t handle the flood of cows. Macwoo normally slaughters 30 or 40 cows a day, but said it killed about 140 cows a day since the FMD outbreak.
With 20 cows in his five-ton truck, 42-year-old farmer Lee Gi-seok said, �I should wait in line now so that I can get my turn tomorrow. If I can�t get in the slaughterhouse today, my cows will have to stay in the truck all night.�
Government officials said meat prices will rise because more than a million cows have been culled as a result of FMD. They said wholesale beef prices are now six or seven million won per 500 kilograms, 12 percent higher than before the FMD outbreak.
Since the first outbreak in Andong, North Gyeongsang, on Nov. 28, the deadly virus infected all regions nationwide except four: North and South Jeolla, South Gyeongsang and Jeju Island.
Roughly 1.4 million cows have been or will be culled, the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said yesterday.
Yonhap News Agency reported yesterday that the government criticized rumormongers saying quarantine officials were intentionally allowing the highly contagious disease to spread.
Several Internet posts said the government may not be trying hard to prevent the spread of FMD because the culling of livestock could help boost sales of American beef.
South Korea and the U.S. agreed to a revised free trade agreement on Dec. 3 and although beef was not included in the pact, Washington pressed for the South Korean market to be more open to imports of American beef.
�The government must be trying to spread the disease to kill cows and pigs and make up for the meat supply shortage with U.S. beef,� an Internet user wrote on a Web portal bulletin board.
By Shin Jin-ho, Kim Hee-jin [[email protected]] |
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red_devil
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| �The government must be trying to spread the disease to kill cows and pigs and make up for the meat supply shortage with U.S. beef,� an Internet user wrote on a Web portal bulletin board. |
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PEIGUY
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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| �The government must be trying to spread the disease to kill cows and pigs and make up for the meat supply shortage with U.S. beef,� an Internet user wrote on a Web portal bulletin board. |
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I read that in the Jooang Daily today and shook my head.. |
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Konglishman
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
Location: Nanjing
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| Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:53 am Post subject: |
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| sojusucks wrote: |
Note: Bird flu was an example from the past. I don't think it is back.
The prices will remain stable in the short-term because many are slaughtering their herds to prevent a total loss. But, in the long run, prices will eventually increase because of limited supply.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2930867
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For healthy cows, a rush to slaughter
�농민들 앞다퉈 도축 � 순번 받으려 하루 노숙�
January 12, 2011
CHEONGJU, North Chungcheong - Slaughterhouses are working overtime as farmers rush cows and pigs to market before they get infected with foot-and-mouth disease.
Farmers particularly don�t want to miss out on the Lunar New Year holiday, which is when Koreans celebrate by eating beef and pork.
In FMD-infected areas, farmers aren�t allowed to butcher their cows and pigs and sell them at market. But in virus-free regions such as Daejeon, farmers are desperately waiting at slaughterhouses, worried that foot-and-mouth disease could reach their area at any moment.
Lee Hong-geun, a 41-year-old farmer, stood for hours in front of a slaughterhouse in Ojeong-dong, Daejeon, waiting to get in with his cows.
�It�s been almost four hours since I got here,� Lee said. �I�ll be the last to get my cows butchered. I have never waited this long before.�
Five trucks unloaded cows at the entrance to the Ojeong-dong slaughterhouse, and in a parking lot behind the building, about 50 cows waited for their turn to die. The slaughterhouse said it killed about 150 cows yesterday, 50 more than usual.
�We can�t receive any more cows right now because we�ve reached capacity,� said Kim Jae-sik, manager of the slaughterhouse. �Farmers are flocking here because the government shut down two major slaughterhouses in Cheongwon and Jecheon in North Chungcheong.�
In Okcheon, North Chungcheong, the small Macwoo slaughterhouse said it couldn�t handle the flood of cows. Macwoo normally slaughters 30 or 40 cows a day, but said it killed about 140 cows a day since the FMD outbreak.
With 20 cows in his five-ton truck, 42-year-old farmer Lee Gi-seok said, �I should wait in line now so that I can get my turn tomorrow. If I can�t get in the slaughterhouse today, my cows will have to stay in the truck all night.�
Government officials said meat prices will rise because more than a million cows have been culled as a result of FMD. They said wholesale beef prices are now six or seven million won per 500 kilograms, 12 percent higher than before the FMD outbreak.
Since the first outbreak in Andong, North Gyeongsang, on Nov. 28, the deadly virus infected all regions nationwide except four: North and South Jeolla, South Gyeongsang and Jeju Island.
Roughly 1.4 million cows have been or will be culled, the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said yesterday.
Yonhap News Agency reported yesterday that the government criticized rumormongers saying quarantine officials were intentionally allowing the highly contagious disease to spread.
Several Internet posts said the government may not be trying hard to prevent the spread of FMD because the culling of livestock could help boost sales of American beef.
South Korea and the U.S. agreed to a revised free trade agreement on Dec. 3 and although beef was not included in the pact, Washington pressed for the South Korean market to be more open to imports of American beef.
�The government must be trying to spread the disease to kill cows and pigs and make up for the meat supply shortage with U.S. beef,� an Internet user wrote on a Web portal bulletin board.
By Shin Jin-ho, Kim Hee-jin [[email protected]] |
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Actually, one of my students missed the final exam for my winter intensive class due to the H1N1 virus. Well, at least, that is what she says. |
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PEIGUY
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| Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 2:06 am Post subject: |
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Actually, one of my students missed the final exam for my winter intensive class due to the H1N1 virus. Well, at least, that is what she says. |
Actually H1n1 is the swine flu.. not the avian flu.. Sojusucks.. didn't they find some migratory birds with bird flu? |
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sojusucks
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| Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 3:19 am Post subject: |
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| PEIGUY wrote: |
| Konglishman wrote: |
Actually, one of my students missed the final exam for my winter intensive class due to the H1N1 virus. Well, at least, that is what she says. |
Actually H1n1 is the swine flu.. not the avian flu.. Sojusucks.. didn't they find some migratory birds with bird flu? |
You may be right. Let's see if there are any links. |
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PEIGUY
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| Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 5:57 am Post subject: |
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110112/hl_nm/us_korea_disease
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While battling the serious outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, South Korea late on Tuesday raised its bird flu alert level to "watch" from "caution" after detecting the H5N1 avian influenza virus at poultry farms in four provinces.
There have been 34 suspected cases of bird flu in poultry, with 16 cases confirmed, the ministry said.
Outbreaks of bird flu have prompted the authorities to cull 470,000 poultry, or 0.4 percent of domestic stock, a ministry official said on Wednesday, while continuing the quarantine of commercial duck and chicken breeding farms in affected areas.
The outbreak of bird flu was first confirmed on December 31 in ducks in the city of Cheonan, South Chungcheong province, and in chickens in the city of Iksan in North Jeolla province.
South Korea has had no human cases of the high-severity bird flu strain. It has had three outbreaks of the virus at poultry farms in the past 10 years. |
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/12/113_78938.html
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| The report came as Seoul confirmed three cases of a virulent bird flu strain from wild migratory birds that arrived in the country for the winter earlier in the month. |
Chicken will go up in price soon too if they don't contain this and it spreads.. |
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sojusucks
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| Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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This is getting out of hand. Now, the truth is coming out about incompetence and possibbly corruption involved with the major farms.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2930930
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Institute finds infection and covers up for days
January 13, 2011
The Gyeongsangbuk-do Livestock Research Institute in North Gyeongsang, a premier agricultural breeding facility, became infected with foot-and-mouth disease - and covered it up for six days.
Jeong Chang-jin, chief of the institute, said Tuesday that a female striped ox at the egg transfer center of the institute was found to be FMD-positive by the National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service last Wednesday despite the institute�s preventive measures.
However, neither the National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service, which tested the ox�s blood, nor the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries was aware of the fact.
When the institute sent the blood to the Veterinary Service for tests, the request was sent in the name of Jeong, not the institute, to make it look like it came from an individual farm.
Since one ox was infected, the rest of the hoofed mammals in the institute should have been slaughtered quickly. The institute was raising 1,100 such animals, including Hanwoo (cows native to Korea), striped oxen, which are considered a rare variety, milk cows and pigs.
The institute delayed the slaughters until Tuesday.
�Currently, 670 livestock have been slaughtered and buried,� said Jeong, adding that �the procedure is taking time as the institute is using its own manpower and equipment.� He said they will �hurry the procedure.�
The outbreak in the institute has halted all breeding activities. Moreover, production and supply of breeding pigs and sperm are no longer possible.
It was the second livestock research institute in a rural area to become infected with FMD following one in South Chungcheong last May.
Meanwhile, the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries heightened the crisis alert for avian influenza after it spread from South Jeolla to Gyeonggi on Jan. 8.
By Song Yee-ho [[email protected]]
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sojusucks
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| Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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Note: How come no one understands that I referenced the bird flu incident a while back, before the swine flu? I am not confusing the two but others sure are.
The possibility of corruption is there because just imagine if they have even an extra day or two to slaughter some cows to sell for meat. They could even warn their friends so they can slaughter cows to sell for meat. If they wait too long then the FMD warnings go out, the culling begins, and they can lose everything. Remember, we're talking about a great deal of money invested in the livestock. But, because of the delays in getting out the FMD warnings, the disease spread like wildfire in less than a week. |
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PEIGUY
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| Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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Note: How come no one understands that I referenced the bird flu incident a while back, before the swine flu? I am not confusing the two but others sure are.
The possibility of corruption is there because just imagine if they have even an extra day or two to slaughter some cows to sell for meat. They could even warn their friends so they can slaughter cows to sell for meat. If they wait too long then the FMD warnings go out, the culling begins, and they can lose everything. Remember, we're talking about a great deal of money invested in the livestock. But, because of the delays in getting out the FMD warnings, the disease spread like wildfire in less than a week. |
I missed the bird flu incident a while back, I should've posted those articles in there. Doesn't surprise me in regards to the cover up at the slaughterhouse.. |
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sojusucks
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| Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 12:16 am Post subject: |
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| PEIGUY wrote: |
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Note: How come no one understands that I referenced the bird flu incident a while back, before the swine flu? I am not confusing the two but others sure are.
The possibility of corruption is there because just imagine if they have even an extra day or two to slaughter some cows to sell for meat. They could even warn their friends so they can slaughter cows to sell for meat. If they wait too long then the FMD warnings go out, the culling begins, and they can lose everything. Remember, we're talking about a great deal of money invested in the livestock. But, because of the delays in getting out the FMD warnings, the disease spread like wildfire in less than a week. |
I missed the bird flu incident a while back, I should've posted those articles in there. Doesn't surprise me in regards to the cover up at the slaughterhouse.. |
I hear you, PEIguy. This is only going to get worse as we see the effects at the supermarkets. |
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PEIGUY
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| Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 5:09 am Post subject: |
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| companies that import meat must be thanking someone that this happened.. more $$ to them... |
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