China’s 26-storey pig skyscraper ready to slaughter 1 million pigs a year

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Dirk Pfeiffer, chair professor at One Health at City University of Hong Kong, agreed, and said: “The higher the density of animals, the higher the risk of infectious pathogen spread and amplification, as well as potential for mutation.

“The probably even more important question will be whether this type of production is consistent with the need to move towards reduced meat consumption, considering the apparently unstoppable threat of devastating climate change,” he said.