03-09-2008, 04:23 AM
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Green measures reach countryside
Last February, 58 year-old pig farmer Xie Pandi was told by local authorities in Guangyi County of suburban Wuxi that she could no longer raise pigs as she had done for the past 20 years - for environmental reasons.
It seemed that the manure from her pigs was polluting nearby rivers which fed into Taihu Lake. With the help of her two sisters, Xie simply moved her 100 pigs to a village further north in hopes of stretching the rules for one more year. But she knows that the jig is up.
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