{"id":270,"date":"2007-10-06T09:37:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T09:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=270"},"modified":"2007-11-13T09:47:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T09:47:12","slug":"all-the-pork-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/all-the-pork-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"All the pork in China &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As food and toy safety concerns sizzle in the media, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalcorp.com\/content.asp?ContentID=5425&amp;newsletter=24\">Ethical Corp published a readable article<\/a> on the recent history of demand and supply of pork in China.\u00a0 It is useful because it illustrates how markets work in China.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s amusing.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an extract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pig farmers responded the same way all Chinese producers of everything from Thomas the Tank Engine toys to DVD players respond to increased demand, by quickly adding capacity. They bulked up the pigs on steroids \u2013 notably the widespread illegal use of the growth-promoting drug clenbuterol, which is often abused by bodybuilders and dieters in the US and Europe and has been banned by international sports authorities \u2013 to get better prices, and continued doing this even as swine flu took hold and consumers switched back to chicken.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As food and toy safety concerns sizzle in the media, Ethical Corp published a readable article on the recent history of demand and supply of pork in China.\u00a0 It is useful because it illustrates how markets work in China.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s amusing.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an extract: Pig farmers responded the same way all Chinese producers of &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/all-the-pork-in-china\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">All the pork in China &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-4m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}