Feeding 1 in 6. Vertical pork

Today China produces roughly half the world's pork. Getting there required swine genetics from multiple continents, feed from Brazil, and a disease outbreak that wiped out hundreds of millions of animals. This episode asks how they did it, and what that cost - to the household pig, to the smallholder farmer, and to ecosystems thousands of kilometers away. For more info, transcript and resources, visit: https://tabledebates.org/podcast/ episode100 Want to share your reflections on the episode? Send us an email or voice memo to podcast@tabledebates.org Guests Ron Lane, Agricultural consultant in Beijing Li Zhang, Prof in Sociology and Environmental Studies at Amherst College Gustavo Oliveira, Prof in Geography at Clark University Episode written, hosted, produced and edited by Matthew Kessler. Sound mixing by Martin Palmqvist. Music by Blue dot sessions.