How two concurrent pandemics put a spoke in the wheel of intensive pig production

Anim Front. 2021 Feb 5;11(1):14-18. doi: 10.1093/af/vfaa051. eCollection 2021 Jan.

Sam Millet^{1

2

3}, Sarah De Smet¹, Egbert F Knol^{3

4}, Giuseppe Bee^{3

5}, Paolo Trevisi^{3

6}, Stafford Vigors^{3

7}, Katja Nilsson^{3

8}, Jef Van Meensel¹

¹ Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO), Melle, Belgium.
² Department of Nutrition, Genetics and Ethology, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium.
³ Study Commission on Pigs, EAAP, Roma, Italy.
⁴ Topigs Norsvin Research Center, AA Beuningen, The Netherlands.
⁵ Agroscope, Posieux, Switzerland.
⁶ Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences (DISTAL), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
⁷ School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland.
⁸ Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.

No abstract available

Keywords: African swine fever; COVID-19; pigs.