{"id":100995,"date":"2020-01-17T10:48:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T18:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/china-could-release-emergency-pork-reserves-after-losing-100-million-pigs-to-swine-fever"},"modified":"2020-01-17T10:48:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T18:48:47","slug":"china-could-release-emergency-pork-reserves-after-losing-100-million-pigs-to-swine-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/china-could-release-emergency-pork-reserves-after-losing-100-million-pigs-to-swine-fever","title":{"rendered":"China could release emergency pork reserves after losing 100 million pigs to swine fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-could-release-emergency-pork-reserves-after-losing-100-million-pigs-to-swine-fever2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>African swine fever has wiped out a third of China\u2019s pig population. Now government officials are discussing dramatic steps to stabilize the world\u2019s largest pork market.<\/p>\n<p>Pork is a huge deal in China. The country is home to half of all the pigs on the planet. The meat is a staple of the Chinese diet, which means its scarcity could<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/07\/04\/asia\/swine-flu-epidemic-china-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> damage China\u2019s social stability<\/a>. The outbreak of swine fever also <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/15\/business\/african-swine-fever-hebei-pork-scn-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">threatens to upend the global pork supply chain.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Chinese authorities have already made plans to shore up the pig market \u2014 including subsidies for pig farms<strong> <\/strong>and families who may struggle with soaring prices \u2014 they\u2019re stepping up efforts to deal with<strong> <\/strong>the crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African swine fever has wiped out a third of China\u2019s pig population. Now government officials are discussing dramatic steps to stabilize the world\u2019s largest pork market. Pork is a huge deal in China. The country is home to half of all the pigs on the planet. The meat is a staple of the Chinese diet, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1490,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-government","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}