Quantcast
Channel: Health & Environment - South China Morning Post
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 8500

Slaughterhouse blockade called off as Hong Kong health officials and pork traders reach agreement on future swine fever arrangements, allowing cull of 6,000 pigs to go ahead

$
0
0
Hong Kong health officials have yielded to pork traders and agreed to explore ways of avoiding a mass pig cull in the event of future cases of African swine fever outbreaks, bringing to an end a two-day siege of the public Sheung Shui slaughterhouse by protesting traders who also at one point threatened a go-slow protest blocking streets in the city centre.The deal, struck after a three-hour meeting between the two sides on Sunday, cleared the way for a much-needed pig cull operation at the…

Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 8500

Trending Articles