If we can trust the bureaucracy, pigs might flySoaring pork prices are another indicator of a sinking bureaucracy, a system that's both inefficient and increasingly becoming untrustworthy. According to news reports, the number of live pigs the country produced went down from about 19 million last year to just 13 million this year. To whom did the missing six million pigs belong to? Last May, Vietnam suspended a shipment of live pigs from Thailand, saying it detected ASF in them. The response is the usual reaction from bureaucratic authorities and it appears too little too late if six million live pigs have already disappeared from the system.

Source: Bangkok Post January 11, 2022 10:24 UTC