Do live pigs belong at global trade shows?

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Vincent ter Beek Editor of Pig Progress / Topic: Pigs around the world
Do live pigs belong at global trade shows?  Photo: Vincent ter Beek
Do live pigs belong at global trade shows? Photo: Vincent ter Beek
Last week, the news broke that the annual US trade show World Pork Expo will be cancelled due do the emergence of African Swine Fever in Asia. A good moment to re-think the set-up of the expo anyway, writes Pig Progress editor Vincent ter Beek. Are live hogs and international agribusiness events a good combination anyway? In November 2006 I was still as green as grass, when I attended my very 1st edition of the world’s largest animal husbandry show EuroTier in Hanover, Germany. I remember bei


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