date:May 30, 2012
China's population growth isn't slowing down. Neither is its appetite for food, especially protein. To that end, reports show that Chinese livestock officials are reaching out on the world market for genetics to bump the productivity of the nation's hog herd. Some argue it amounts to robbing U.S. genetics, some of which have taken decades to develop, to create a herd that could ultimately compete with the U.S. on the pork export market.
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