"Chinese pork investment sparks criticism in Argentina", 5 October 2020

Argentina hopes to finalise by the end of November an agreement with China to build 25 industrial “pork plants” in the north of the country, thereby doubling its pork exports within six years. But NGOs have sounded the alarm over possible consequences that include deforestation, soil pollution, water depletion and greenhouse gas emissions.

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“Industrial farms are a danger to humanity and concentrate large areas of potential disease and contamination,” says Soledad Barruti, journalist and one of the promoters of the campaign against the agreement. [...]

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[...] [T]he overcrowded conditions in which the pigs live, the excessive use of antibiotics and the possibility of generating new zoonotic diseases – transmitted from animals to humans.