News for the Far East: Stop seeing pork as a commodity

Where the Western world continues to struggle with its financial crisis, VIV Asia 2013 showed once more that growth is to be found ?elsewhere. The ascent of the East comes with new challenges and responsibilities. For pork production, Dr Robert van Barneveld, Australia, summarised these. Assume that the Far East stretches from Japan to Papua New Guinea and from Myanmar to the Philippines. In that case, the area houses almost 2.2 billion people – a number that is rapidly growing – and the maj