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09.12.17300 Tonnes of Diseased Pig Carcasses – the Latest Example of China's Pollution Crisis
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Stomach-churning symbols of the environmental calamity facing China have never been in short supply: exploding watermelons, toxic running tracks, rivers that flow the colour of blood.
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06.22.15The Village and the Girl
BBC
The destruction of rural China became for pig farmer Xiao Zhang a liberation and an opportunity.
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08.21.14Who Will Feed China’s Pigs?
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He's been called China’s richest chicken farmer, but Liu Yonghao has come a long way from his days breeding birds in rural Sichuan province.As the billionaire founder of the New Hope Group, China’s largest producer of animal feed, Liu’s rise...
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01.15.14China Cloning on an 'Industrial Scale'
BBC
A converted shoe factory in Shenzhen becomes the world's largest cloning centre through "handmade cloning."
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03.12.13Pig Carcasses in Shanghai River Spawn Dark Humor on Chinese Internet
The Huangpu River usually appears in glamor shots of Shanghai, serving as scenic backdrop to the colonial splendor of the Bund or the modern marvel of the Pudong skyline. But of late, a more grim and distasteful association has emerged. As of March...