China has constructed a 26-storey pig-farming skyscraper raising concerns among experts that the one-of-a-kind facility could lead to severe disease outbreaks.
Hubei Zhongxin Kaiwai Modern Farming built the vertical pig farm which resembles a high-rise apartment building, and launched operations last month in Ezhou – about 80km east from Wuhan where the Covid-19 pandemic began.
The facility has the capacity to slaughter 1.2million swine a year and was established to meet the nation’s soaring demand for meat, with China consuming half the world’s pork.
Dr Danielle Anderson, who studies viral pathogenesis in animals, told Daily Mail Australia although such a facility would be saving a lot of space in terms of land, the high-density setting means bacterial diseases could spread much more rapidly.
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