World’s largest pig farm in China will ‘produce’ 2 million pigs per year

A drone image shows Muyuan Foods newly built multi-storey pig farm, China, photo: Muyuan Foods / Reuters
A drone image shows Muyuan Foods newly built multi-storey pig farm, China, photo: Muyuan Foods / Reuters

Chinese pig producer Muyuan Foods is building the world’s biggest pig farm to breed and slaughter as many pigs as possible in one place. The company aims to ‘produce’ around 2.1 million pigs a year at the new farm.

The company began construction of the new mega farm in March and started operations at the first of its 21 buildings in September.

Since 2018, more than 100 million pigs were killed in China after a huge African swine fever outbreak. Small farms were wiped out, but huge industrialized farms suffered a loss but recovered quickly because pig prices went up.

“We have hit a very favorable period for development. Pig prices are very high, our profits are really good, and cash flow is really ample,” Qin Jun, Muyuan’s vice general manager told Reuters.

Muyuan’s new mega farm near Nanyang, which will keep 84,000 female pigs and their kids captive, is by far the largest in the world. Muyuan will spend about 40 billion yuan ($6.11 billion) this year on new pig farms, Qin said, about eight times what it spent two years ago.

“We will employ fewer people and use more technology,” he said, pointing to intelligent feeding systems, manure cleaning robots, and infrared cameras to detect when pigs have a fever. Its density carries huge risk, however, with diseases including the swine fever virus still circulating in China.

Pigs are highly intelligent and social animals, even more than dogs. When they’re used solely for food, they never see daylight or get any moment in their short life to live freely and feel love.

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5 COMMENTS

  1. Disturbing, demented and evil. Over one billion Chinese people who could choose to eat someTHING else. Not the remains of imprisoned, tortured sentient beings. Natural law/God/Goddess/The Divine is beginning to put the breaks on this. COVID-19 is just the beginning. Cruelty is unsustainable. Soon we humans will be dying along with our innocent defenseless fellow beings who have no weapons against us.

  2. THEY ARE MURDERERS!!!😡🔪 … AND NOT JUST PIGS!😡🔪🐖😡🔪👶😡🔪😡🐖🔪😡👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🔪🐖😡🔪👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🔪🐖😡🔪👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

    ON THE OTHER SIDE, THEY SUPPORT THE 🚨 INSANE DESIRE OF SOCIETY BY ENJOYING THE TASTE OF CORPSE PIECES IN THE MOUTH.

  3. What zoonotic diseases will this spread & the antibiotic use for such large numbers may create resistant strains of bacteria/viruses…animal welfare is not even considered, only economic gain, they are intelligent & need outdoor access & intellectual stimulus.

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