THE number of dead pigs pulled from the Huangpu River in Shanghai has now reached over 10,000 since the city government started finding the pigs about two weeks ago. According to The Shanghai Daily, as of 3 pm yesterday, the number of dead pigs hauled from the waters was 10,164 after another 369 carcasses were plucked from the river.
What me all our friends are asking is how do you even start to transport that many dead pigs to one place without anyone taking notice - bizzare is about all you can say. Everything is super-sized in China - the cities, the conspicuous wealth, the poverty and the buildings but 10,000 dead pigs and no one is saying anything about where they came from, how they got dumped in the river and more important why they were killed.
The government continues to tell residents not to panic, saying that all the tests show the tap water from the nine water plants near the city meet the national standards.
Though the city government has been updating the situation regularly on its official microblog since March 11 three days after someone posted pictures of the dead pigs there are still no answers about where the pigs came from other than some ear tags showed the dead pigs were raised in Zhejiang Province's Jiaxing City, located upstream from Shanghai.
With the PM2.5 pollutant count in Shanghai this morning at 153 (Toronto is 19) and the thought of a random pig floating past our balcony, I'm glad were heading back to Toronto today for two weeks - need a break from this occasional craziness.
The government continues to tell residents not to panic, saying that all the tests show the tap water from the nine water plants near the city meet the national standards.
Though the city government has been updating the situation regularly on its official microblog since March 11 three days after someone posted pictures of the dead pigs there are still no answers about where the pigs came from other than some ear tags showed the dead pigs were raised in Zhejiang Province's Jiaxing City, located upstream from Shanghai.
With the PM2.5 pollutant count in Shanghai this morning at 153 (Toronto is 19) and the thought of a random pig floating past our balcony, I'm glad were heading back to Toronto today for two weeks - need a break from this occasional craziness.
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