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Pig farmers call for tougher measures as fears grow Hong Kong is not prepared for threat of African swine fever

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Pig farmers in Hong Kong have threatened to stop cooperating with the government, and said the city’s reputation as a hotbed of gastronomy could suffer if measures to prevent African swine fever were not significantly tightened. On Saturday, Chong Chung-ping, chairman of the Hong Kong Livestock Industry Association, said most of the city’s 43 pig farmers wanted authorities to kill all the livestock in a slaughter house if a pig was found to be infected, not just a few as is...

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