Boar smuggling risks swine fever ravaging pork industry

[rooster59]

Boar smuggling risks swine fever ravaging pork industry

By Somchai Samart 
The Nation

 

File photo: // AFP PHOTO

 

Thailand’s South is facing a big risk from African swine fever, due to the many wild boars that have been smuggled in via its shared border with Malaysia.

 

Smuggled animals are not properly checked and screened.  “People in Malaysia do not consume wild boars, so a lot of them have been smuggled into Thailand,” Livestock Development Department’s deputy director-general Jeerasak Pipattanapongsophon said on Friday.

 

He spoke while chairing a meeting on measures to prevent African swine fever from invading Thailand. 

 

According to the World Organisation for Animal Health, the disease is highly contagious and affects both wild and farm pigs. It has been blamed for serious economic and production losses in other countries.

 

“If the disease spreads into Thailand, it will cause massive damage to the country’s pig-farm industry,” Jeerasak told the meeting.

 

He lamented that pigs smuggled from Malaysia were not limited to the southern provinces, but could also be found in northern provinces, such as Lampang. 

 

Jeerasak said he would ask the relevant authorities, including the Army, to help prevent more boars being smuggled across the border.

 

“Wild boars are the most smuggled agricultural products in Thailand’s southern region,” he said. 

 

Preecha Kijthavorn, president of the Southern Pig Farmers Association, said his group has instructed its members to strictly control access to their farms in an effort prevent swine fever from spreading. 

 

Songkhla’s livestock chief Kitikorn Jenpaibool noted there were three livestock border points in the South – Narathiwat, Songkhla and Satun. 

 

“We are very strict at the border checkpoints,” he insisted. “And we have also conducted patrols along our shared border with Malaysia.” 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30357278

 

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-10-28

[HappyAndRich]

25 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Thailand’s South is facing a big risk from African swine fever, due to the many wild boars that have been smuggled in via its shared border with Malaysia.

Hillarious! People still do everything they can to destroy for themselfs and their fellow human beeings. All in the interest of money.

[bluesofa]

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

“People in Malaysia do not consume wild boars, so a lot of them have been smuggled into Thailand,”

Or any type of pig. Assuming it's pretty unlikely there would be many people keeping pigs in a Muslim country, it must be another religious minority involved in it?

[farang62]

Malaysia raises a lot of pigs!

[bluesofa]

4 minutes ago, farang62 said:

Malaysia raises a lot of pigs!

Not quite sure if that's  a play on words, or a serious comment?

edit: Just googled it, and there are a number of entries about pig breeding in Malaysia, so I stand corrected.

I was just surprised, being a Muslim country.

Edited October 28, 2018 by bluesofa

[Phuketshrew]

They should get big Joke on the job. He's used to dealing with African swine fever. Surely it's an immigration issue ?

[Darcula]

2 minutes ago, Phuketshrew said:

They should get big Joke on the job. He's used to dealing with African swine fever. Surely it's an immigration issue ?

Cannot.....he actually reports to 2 wild bores.

[seahorse]

I thought that the wild boars had left Thailand and were on a world tour.... Currently in Manchester... 

[seahorse]

48 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Not quite sure if that's  a play on words, or a serious comment?

edit: Just googled it, and there are a number of entries about pig breeding in Malaysia, so I stand corrected.

I was just surprised, being a Muslim country.

60% Muslim, 30% Chinese, 10% Indian. 

[Justgrazing]

Wild boar on the border run .. 

5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Jeerasak said he would ask the relevant authorities, including the Army, to help prevent more boars being smuggled across the border.

 

[bluesofa]

5 minutes ago, seahorse said:

60% Muslim, 30% Chinese, 10% Indian. 

OK, I take your point, although isn't that a mixed metaphor, if that's the right phrase?

Chinese and Indian are ethnic groups. Muslims are purely followers of Islam, irrespective of ethnicity.

 

[Esso49]

1 hour ago, bluesofa said:

Not quite sure if that's  a play on words, or a serious comment?

edit: Just googled it, and there are a number of entries about pig breeding in Malaysia, so I stand corrected.

I was just surprised, being a Muslim country.

Bluesofa,

 

I normally like your posts, many are amusing , but you are making a right pigs ear of it in this thread  ????

[Khun Paul]

Of course Thais operate THAINESS, me, me ,me, bugger everyone else and as for the LAW...….What law !!

[bluesofa]

1 hour ago, Esso49 said:

Bluesofa,

 

I normally like your posts, many are amusing , but you are making a right pigs ear of it in this thread  ????

Waste not, want not. I'll make a silk purse out of this right pig's ear. Maybe enough for a second one from the left ear too.

[Justgrazing]

Boared walking the dog .?

Get yourself a 3 legged hog .. 

 

[bluesofa]

7 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

Boared walking the dog .?

Get yourself a 3 legged hog .. 

 

Not so much to go round when everyone's invited for meal.

[toofarnorth]

4 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Boared walking the dog .?

Get yourself a 3 legged hog ..

 

If I owned a hog like that I would call it Harley .

[rickudon]

A bit of a joke! I have a friend who is a pig farmer here, trying to raise organic pork. He gave up buying in piglets, because they ALL had multiple infectious diseases. The Thai pig herd is riddled with disease. You have to vaccinate against everything, and even then you need antibiotics for the diseases you cannot vaccinate for .......  He now breeds all his own piglets, so only gets half of them needing treatment!

[Burma Bill]

Someone is making a "right pig's ear of it"!!