Hong Kong launched its largest pig cull in more than 50 years on Monday in a drastic effort to prevent an outbreak of African swine fever, while pork traders were hopeful supplies of the staple meat could be partially resumed as early as Thursday.About half of 6,000 pigs at the Sheung Shui abattoir were due to be slaughtered by late Monday night, and the rest by Tuesday if everything went smoothly, according to the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department.The cull came after officials on…
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