50 dead pigs found floating on Yangtze
By Li Qian |
March 14, 2013, Thursday
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A total of 50 dead pigs have been found in a tributary of the Yangtze River in Yichang City in central Hubei Province.
The local government launched an investigation after the carcasses, some of them highly decomposed, were found floating near Wulong Village, CCTV reported yesterday.
Meanwhile, 46 people received jail terms yesterday or were detained for buying sick and dead pigs and selling them in Taizhou City in Zhejiang Province. The substandard pork found its way into the wholesale markets, meat processors and restaurants in Wenling City, which falls under the administration of Taizhou, local news portal www.taizhou.com.cn reported.
Their ringleader, Zhang Xingbing, was sentenced to six years and six months, and fined 800,000 yuan (US$128,720), the Wenling City People's Court said.
The other 45 were handed lighter sentences. The court heard that Zhang, a native of Sichuan Province, had asked Chen Guanghua, a worker at the Wenling meat processing plant, to introduce him to feeders who had sick and dead pigs.
Zhang converted a rented garbage dump into a slaughter house and recruited farmers as butchers.
He also processed the pork into bacon, sausages and meat balls, the court said.
Zhang pocketed more than 70,000 yuan by selling 1,000 pigs between 2010 and April 2012.
The local government launched an investigation after the carcasses, some of them highly decomposed, were found floating near Wulong Village, CCTV reported yesterday.
Meanwhile, 46 people received jail terms yesterday or were detained for buying sick and dead pigs and selling them in Taizhou City in Zhejiang Province. The substandard pork found its way into the wholesale markets, meat processors and restaurants in Wenling City, which falls under the administration of Taizhou, local news portal www.taizhou.com.cn reported.
Their ringleader, Zhang Xingbing, was sentenced to six years and six months, and fined 800,000 yuan (US$128,720), the Wenling City People's Court said.
The other 45 were handed lighter sentences. The court heard that Zhang, a native of Sichuan Province, had asked Chen Guanghua, a worker at the Wenling meat processing plant, to introduce him to feeders who had sick and dead pigs.
Zhang converted a rented garbage dump into a slaughter house and recruited farmers as butchers.
He also processed the pork into bacon, sausages and meat balls, the court said.
Zhang pocketed more than 70,000 yuan by selling 1,000 pigs between 2010 and April 2012.
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