by Outcast_Searcher » Sat 05 Dec 2020, 12:35:59
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tuike', 'A')ny news about the african swine fever? There was hype that all Chinese pigs are going to die to the virus and then there will be famine. I haven't heard anything about the virus for a long time. Has the virus been defeated?
Doing a quick google search on "african swine fever chinese pigs", the only story I see page 1 beyond the spring is this, which seems to do a decent job in summary form (graphs) of quantifying the resultant rise in food prices inside and outside China. It looks like a significant issue re pricing in China, not so much globally.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-020-0057-2OTOH, looking at the hits for pages 2 and 3, there are a handful of stories about pork price impacts in China over the summer.
If it were ongoing "big news", one would think there would be ongoing stories in the MSM, at least now and then.
Disclosure: Aside from the one cited article's summary and graph perusal, I didn't dig into this at all -- just a high level quick view to get a sense of it.
For me, mostly eating at home these days is so very CHEAP compared to eating out most of the time (in normal times), I mostly haven't been thinking of food as "expensive". (Blatant price gouging places like Amazon and Walmart aside, of course. One does have to use common sense and comparison shop ALWAYS, to avoid getting ripped off in the modern take no prisoners corporate business climate). Food at home seems cheap, even of course, seeing the stories about meat prices rising in the spring / summer due to the Covid-19 meat packing issues, but for poor people, I'm sure every extra dollar for pork and other meat matters.
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.