An Expert Is actually By My Side

Chapter 131 I'm afraid I really got rich this time (23)

Regardless of whether the mysterious "son-in-law-to-be" of the Lin family is an expert or not, President Luo has guessed one thing.

That is the epidemic, which indeed broke out two months ago!

About two months ago, the medical laboratory of the North American Livestock Slaughter and Quarantine Association discovered a highly contagious new type of swine fever virus when it conducted routine epidemic prevention inspections on the pastures of the North American farming giant Tiger Foods Group. .

This virus is very evil. The livestock in the early stage of infection hardly show any clinical adverse reactions. They will not show malignant symptoms such as fever and skin ulcers until 24 to 28 weeks, and will die within 1 to 2 weeks after the onset of the disease.

If it is slaughtered within 24 weeks, without careful inspection and medical analysis in a professional virus laboratory, it is almost difficult to distinguish the difference between sick pork and healthy pork, and even not all parts of the confirmed infected pigs can be infected. Pathogens are densely detected.

Although this virus is not transmitted to humans, people who eat sick pork will develop fever, and even severe symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, and even coma, depending on the severity of the toxicity.

Even if it is stewed at high temperature, it is difficult to completely eliminate the impact!

And the most frightening thing is that although humans themselves will not be infected with the virus, they may become the vector of the virus and transmit it to other pigs through excrement or other metabolic forms.

If the epidemic prevention work had been actively carried out at that time, the plague might have been brought under control. The problem, however, is that this is almost impossible.

Agriculture is the backbone of the North American economy, and animal husbandry is the most important part of the North American agricultural structure.

Especially pigs.

After all, Xia Guo, the leader of the People's Federation, is the world's largest pork consumer. In order to earn soft sister coins, most ranches in North America mainly use pork, followed by beef, which is more consumed in the country.

This industrial structure has been formed in the first two years since the integration process of the People's Federation. And North American farming companies are indeed up to the challenge, and they have exchanged pork for a lot of high technology.

Over the years, the export volume of pork has hit new highs every year. In order to increase productivity, major farms in North America have also made every effort to squeeze the production efficiency per unit area to the limit.

If this epidemic report gets out, it will undoubtedly be a heavy blow to local farming companies in North America.

In particular, the ranch where the swine fever virus was first detected was the breeding ranch of Tiger Foods, the largest breeding company in North America.

If it is known to the outside world that the pastures of Tiger Foods are contaminated by the swine fever virus, it may not only threaten the survival of Tiger Foods as a breeding company, but the entire pork export industry in North America will be severely damaged!

This is not only related to the source of foreign exchange income in North America, but also the source of livelihood for tens of thousands of jobs and tens of thousands of families.

If they go bankrupt, the impact may be more painful to North America than swine fever.

Therefore, under pressure from the North American Department of Agriculture and vested interests, the North American Livestock Slaughter and Quarantine Association finally chose to compromise and conceal the report.

Although this does not mean giving up treatment, but continuing to produce while preventing epidemics is obviously tantamount to cutting flesh to heal sores. And Tiger Foods' attitude towards the epidemic prevention work is also quite negative. Compared with the epidemic, it obviously cares more about the sales of more than 10 million "products" that are slaughtered every year. A price war started.

This is also one of the main reasons for the surge in pork imports in October and the closure of small and medium-sized farms in various countries.

However, paper cannot contain the fire after all. As the infected area continued to expand, it even invaded the cold chain transportation and food processing fields. In just two months, almost the entire west coast ranch fell.

It wasn't until the import and export port on the east coast of Xiaguo detected abnormal pathogens from the imported pork and sent it to the medical laboratory for analysis that the window paper was completely pierced.

Good guy!

Dare to love that all the pork sent by Youbang is poisonous? !

The only luck is that most of the stocks that were put on the market in the previous month were frozen stocks, and some pigs that had no symptoms of infection or were infected for a short period of time were slaughtered pork.

And after this part of the meat is shipped out, the "inferior products" obtained after the slaughter of sick pigs with clinical symptoms are put on the market next.

After discovering the problem, the Xiaguo Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center and the Customs immediately issued an orange alert and urgently closed the pork import channel from North America to Xiaguo port.

This time it was completely unbearable.

Faced with more and more voices of doubt, the North American Livestock Slaughter and Quarantine Association finally couldn't bear the pressure anymore, admitted the failure of the epidemic prevention work, and confessed the swine fever epidemic that had been concealed for two full months.

Public opinion in the international community was naturally in an uproar.

Regarding this new type of swine fever virus, instead of taking immediate action, the regulatory authorities in North America turned a blind eye to helping those large farmers hide from the sky and cover up pork exports.

The countries of the People's Federation have condemned this extremely irresponsible behavior, as well as North America's serious dereliction of duty on the issue of epidemic prevention and control. Other countries that import pork from North America have also issued orange or even red warnings.

The impact of the swine fever epidemic on the North American animal husbandry industry is obvious. Almost all the pastures from the west coast to the middle of the country have fallen. The largest pork producer in the People's Federation directly closed the pork export channel because no one dared to buy it.

Apart from North America, the most uncomfortable one is probably Xia Guo himself, the world's largest pork consumer.

In fact, this kind of industry with pollution risks and low industrial added value is not very popular in Xia Kingdom, not to mention that the country's cultivated land resources are very scarce.

Instead of developing animal husbandry, it is far better to build a few more chip factories. Not only can it drive a large number of industries, but it can also increase the trade weight of the national currency in the countries of the People's Union, and just exchange what is needed with money.

But now...

Obviously, the epidemic is separated by the Pacific Ocean, but the foodies who are far away in the Pacific Ocean are suffering together.

The pork that has arrived on the shore is definitely not edible, and the pork that has not been transported out of the port warehouse should be destroyed. Even the problematic pork that has entered the market must be recalled as much as possible.

As for those container ships floating at sea...

It can only let them go back where they came from.

And in order to prevent them from dumping pork into the sea and spreading the virus to the marine ecosystem, the boat of the People's Federation of Environmental Protection Organizations followed them almost every step of the way, watching them go back.

Just when the pork market was in a bleak state, the futures market also staged a big drama of ice and fire. The North American pork futures plummeted directly, and those nearing the delivery period even directly fell out of their positions, which caused a lot of losses to the "pork treasures" who had heavy positions.

However, the price of pork futures on Xia Guo's side has risen to become an antenna.

A magical scene was staged at the gates of the various slaughterhouses—that is, a truck full of pigs of various sizes was dragged into the slaughterhouse here, and a truck full of pigs was driven out there.

The pigs squeezed on the truck didn't know it, and they wandered around the gate of hell for no reason and then went back.

The owners of the breeding bases who have already cleared their warehouses are crying without tears. Most of them have smelled the news of the sharp drop in pork prices early on.

This feeling is more sour than riding a roller coaster...

Even if the stocks of "premature meat" created by the bankruptcy of a large number of small and medium-sized breeding bases are still enough to digest for several months, the market itself, which is dominated by emotions, cannot be measured by pure rationality.

The wholesale price has not moved yet, and the pork market in the market has begun to heat up.

Almost all night long, the old man selling vegetables in the market saw the price of meat go up by one yuan.

What's more, they even turned around and bought a fish, picked up a bunch of leeks, and then came back to see that it had completely changed, and it had increased by 50 cents a catty on the spot!

Good guy, the price has risen so much, it's like jumping on a rocket!

It all happened so suddenly that I didn't even have any precautions.

And these news were all Hao Yun found from the Internet or heard from Lin Jun, who admired him so much, in the three days after the end of the autumn recruiting meeting.

To be honest, after hearing these news, although his expression was still calm, his heart was totally in a daze.

Speaking of which, how many piglets are there on New Hope Farm?

Twenty thousand? Twenty-five thousand?

In short, the fraction can be erased directly.

this time……

I'm afraid he really got rich!