But other European pig farmers have not yet been faced with the same regulations.
Pig farmers have had to spend money on this, while other European countries still allow intensive methods.
British pig farmers, for example, look enviously at their Danish counterparts who are mostly organised in big co-operative selling groups.
While Mr. Wu kept his party bosses happy by swearing allegiance to socialism, he turned rice and pig farmers into millionaires.
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The British are famously sensitive to animal welfare similar concerns a decade ago led to tougher rules on pig husbandry, to the despair (and ruin) of many pig farmers.
Elsewhere, at the Anglesey Show, NFU Cymru said pig farmers were struggling to survive and that many might be out of business because of "rocketing feed costs and cheaper foreign imports".
And by all means, for the sake of beleaguered pig farmers who are bound to take a serious economic hit before this is over, let's keep referring to it that way.
To survive the outbreak and the price crash, pig farmers either had to sell out to bigger companies, hold out hope that things would get better or specialize in up-market cuts of pork.
The government says it will not compensate the pig farmers, most of whom are ethnic Chinese, for their losses, although there is a possibility that lotteries will be arranged to raise some money for them.
Richard Bean, whose play about pig farmers was recently voted best new play by the critics, has called for a ban on staging Shakespeare in 2007, so hard has it become for new writers to compete.
Few Americans know more about that hysteria and the cost it incurs than U.S. pig farmers, who can probably feel pork prices dropping everything someone uses the "s-word" despite the stubborn fact that one cannot contract this virus by eating pork.
Also, all farmers and pig farms will receive a subsidy of 100 yuan for every sow they raise.
When a pig is sick, most farmers quarantine it in a "treatment pen, " where antibiotics are given only when necessary.
Farmers are culling their pig herds to avoid the future higher costs of feeding them.
As many as 800 farmers have got out of pig production in recent years, while many of those remaining are depending on extended credit from banks and feed companies.
The majority of the children and adults who got the new strain were attending country or agricultural fairs, which is where they came in contact with pigs (the other pig-to-human transmissions occurred in farmers or veterinarians).
Murphy gets contract farmers to put up most of the capital needed to fatten a pig.
Cattle and pig sperm can make the trip to the uterus independently of the testicles in which they develop because farmers have chemical additives that make both last longer.
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