{"id":9899,"date":"2021-05-25T07:16:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T07:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=9899"},"modified":"2021-05-25T07:16:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T07:16:40","slug":"chinas-obese-pigs-fuel-relentless-slump-in-pork-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=9899","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s obese pigs fuel relentless slump in pork prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostObese pigs in China are being blamed for worsening a sudden rout in the country\u2019s pork prices.Since late last year, farmers have been fattening hogs to almost double their normal weight \u2013 roughly the size of a pygmy hippo or a female polar bear \u2013 in hopes that the animals will generate higher returns should prices rebound.Cao Tao, a pig trader in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, said many of the swine he is buying weigh more than 200kg, compared with their usual size of around 125kg. \u201cSome\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3134750\/chinas-obese-pigs-fuel-relentless-slump-pork-prices\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostObese pigs in China are being blamed for worsening a sudden rout in the country\u2019s pork prices.Since late last year, farmers have been fattening hogs to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9899"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}