Chinese families are rethinking menu options as prices for pork soar despite government efforts to boost inventories after herds were decimated by African swine fever and large-scale closures of pig farms for environmental reasons.
In this Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019, photo, a clerk stacks cuts of pork at a meat market in Beijing. Chinese families are having to rethink menu options as pork prices soar despite government efforts to rebuild herds decimated by African swine fever and large-scale closures of pig farms for environmental reasons.
After all, you can’t make “zhajiang” style noodles without pork to go into its heavy bean-based sauce, Liu said.“This is having a huge effect on me, a huge one,” she said. China raises about half of the world’s pigs, and the outbreaks of African swine fever that began over a year ago have ravaged its herds. The disease does not infect humans.
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