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China may have rung in the year of the rat this week, but the nation’s heart is still hungrily set on the pig.

With pork prices having jumped over 50 percent in the past year, national attention has shifted to</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)</generator></channel></rss>