Damn, China must be hella pissed to go, “and fuck yo’ pork too!”

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Awesome. The torture/murder of animals is fundamentally evil and literally destroying the planet.

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Pick a better time to fight the vegan fight, we’re watching some leopards eating some faces here. (It doesn’t need to be every part of your personality)

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I’m sure they lecture the leopards too.

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China has a strategic reserve of pork in a mountain somewhere that it will have to dip into while it finds new suppliers, so really think about those particular living conditions.

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The Great Char-Siu Mine of Chengdu.

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The headline is a bit misleading or at least ambiguous. But these are US pork imports to China, I assume.

EDIT: From the article, "China, behind Mexico and Japan, was the U.S.’s third-biggest market for pork in 2024, importing some 475,000 metric tons valued at more than $1.1 billion. "

These are US exports to China.

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Why on Earth would China export pork to us? They eat way more than we do.

EDIT: No, I’m definitely right

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There is a lot of American pork (and some beef) in supermarkets here in Japan. I get mine from Costco which, at least for loins, is Canadian pork. Beef, of the non-wagyuu variety, tends to be Australian or American. Chicken is typically domestic in my experience.

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12 million kg of pork. So that’s like one breakfast for China.

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If you calculate about 200 gr for one meal, it would make one breakfast for 60 million people. Not even one tenth of the population.

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52 Boeings, 120.000 tons pork … note to self: don’t pick a fight with China

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1 million Chinese is a small number.

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And has been for much, if not most, of recorded history. IIRC they lost a city of a million people like 1000-2000 BCE. It flooded, and the city starved before the flood waters receded. I’m not going to imply it wasn’t impactful, but that was just one of many cities by that point.

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