Overcrowded farms led to pig dumping

Overcrowding on pig farms around Shanghai may have led to the dumping of some 16,000 hog carcasses in a nearby waterway, Reuters reported. Farmers have reportedly crammed farms with pigs in an attempt to cash in on high demand for pork. Prior to these findings, it was believe that the waterlogged hogs were a result of a government crackdown on criminal gangs that had been selling abandoned carcasses as meat to restaurant suppliers. In order to prevent similar incidents from occuring in the future, the government of Jiaxing, the city where the pigs had been raised, announced a regional plan to cut the numbers of pigs to below 2 million within two years.