Consuming half of the world's pork, China built a 26-story building just to raise pigs

At the end of September last year, the first 3,700 sows were moved to a 26-storey building located in a village in Ezhou City, Hubei Province, China. Dozens of sows at a time are loaded into industrial elevators to move to higher floors, where they will be cared for until insemination and adulthood. According to the New York Times, this is a pig farm consisting of two 26-storey buildings with an area of 400,000 m2, with a total investment of more than 570 million USD. With modern process and technology, it is estimated that it can provide 108,000 tons of meat per year. Built by Hubei Zhongxin Kaiwei Modern Livestock Company (Hubei Zhongxin Kaiwei), a cement manufacturing company has become a "farmer" raising pigs, "super-high-rise farm" Ezhou breed as a monument to China's ambitions to modernize pork production. The farm, located next to the company's cement plant, is nominally a pig farm, operating like a "Foxconn factory" that raises pigs with the precision of a smartphone ...