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Subscriptions Subscriptions are available to the public for $25 per year. Distribution on campus is free and is funded in part by the Student Activity Fee. Corrections In the March 26 edition of The Concordian, Hilary Thomp-son’s name was incorrectly spelled. We apologize for this mistake. In the April 2 edition of The Concordian, an article referred to cadavers. We apologize for any distress this article caused. Have a story idea? If you see news or hear news, send your tips to concord@ cord.edu. Security Report theconcordian.org • April 9, 2014 NEWS Chapel 9:50 a.m. Lavender Graduation 7:00 p.m. Red River Psychology Conference 7:30 p.m. “Much Ado About Nothing” 8:00 p.m. Tabernacle 9:00 p.m. UNITED STATES: Jury convicts woman in Texas stiletto shoe killing. US bacon prices rise after virus kills baby pigs MILWAUKEE (AP) — A virus never before seen in the U.S. has killed millions of baby pigs in less than a year, and with little known about how it spreads or how to stop it, it’s threatening pork production and pushing up prices by 10 percent or more. Scientists think porcine epidemic diar-rhea, which does not infect humans or other animals, came from China, but they don’t know how it got into the country or spread to 27 states since last May. The federal govern-ment is looking into how such viruses might spread, while the pork industry, wary of fu-ture outbreaks, has committed $1.7 million to research the disease. The U.S. is both a top producer and ex-porter of pork, but production could decline about 7 percent this year compared to last — the biggest drop in more than 30 years, ac-cording to a recent report from Rabobank, which focuses on the food, beverage and agri-business industries. Already, prices have shot up: A pound of bacon averaged $5.46 in February, 13 percent more than a year ago, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Ham and chops have gone up too, although not as much. Farmer and longtime veterinarian Craig Rowles did all he could to prevent PED from spreading to his farm in Iowa, the nation’s top pork producer and the state hardest hit by the disease. He trained workers to spot symp-toms, had them shower and change clothing before entering barns and limited deliveries and visitors. Despite his best efforts, the deadly diar-rhea attacked in November, killing 13,000 ani-mals in a matter of weeks, most of them less than 2 weeks old. The farm produces about 150,000 pigs each year. Estimates of how many pigs have died in the past year vary, ranging from at least 2.7 million to more than 6 million. The U.S. De-partment of Agriculture says the die-off has had a hand in shrinking the nation’s pig herd by 3 percent to about 63 million pigs. Diarrhea affects pigs like people: Symp-toms that are uncomfortable in adults become life-threatening in newborns that dehydrate quickly. The best chance at saving young pigs is to wean them and then pump them with clear fluids that hydrate them without taxing their intestines. But nothing could be done for the youngest ones except euthanasia. “It’s very difficult for the people who are working the barns at that point,” Rowles said. “. No one wants to go to work today and think about making the decision of baby pigs that need to be humanely euthanized because they can’t get up anymore. Those are very hard days.” PED thrives in cold weather, so the death toll in the U.S. has soared since December. The first reports came from the Midwest, and the states most affected are those with the largest share of the nation’s pigs: Iowa, Minnesota, North Carolina and Illinois. The disease also has spread to Canada and Mex-ico. Some states now require a veterinarian to certify that pigs coming in are virus-free, while China, which has seen repeated out-breaks since the 1980s, has asked the U.S. De-partment of Agriculture to similarly vouch for animals shipped overseas. Companies are racing to develop a vac-cine, but the federal government has yet to approve one. While the mass deaths have been a blow for farmers, the financial impact to them may be limited because pork prices are rising to make up for the loss of animals. In the end, consumers will be most affect-ed, Meyer said, with pork prices likely to be 10 percent higher overall this summer than a year ago. “We’re all used to: ‘We’ve got plenty of food, it’s cheap. We’ll eat what we want to,’” Meyer said. “We Americans are very spoiled by that, but this is one of those times that we’re going to find out that when one of these things hits, it costs us a lot of money.” • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California bill that sought to end killer whale shows at SeaWorld in San Diego and phase out their cap-tivity was put on hold Tuesday, dousing an escalating fight between animal activists and supporters of the major tourist attraction. The bill’s author, Democrat Richard Bloom of Santa Monica, agreed during the bill’s first hearing before the water, parks and wild-life committee to revisit his proposal after further study. As a result, AB2140 is dead for this year and the soonest lawmakers could vote on the proposal would be mid-2015. “It’s unfortunate that much of the conversation has been fueled . by fear and invective and misinformation,” Bloom said. “It’s clear that many committee members are simply unprepared to make a deci-sion on the bill.” Bloom was inspired by the 2013 documentary “Blackfish” in which filmmakers argue that captivity and mistreatment of orcas make the animals aggressive. It examined the events leading to the 2010 death of trainer Dawn Brancheau in SeaWorld Orlando when the whale Ti-likum pulled her underwater. John Hargrove, a former SeaWorld trainer in Texas and San Diego who appeared in “Blackfish,” told lawmakers at the hearing that or-cas appeared agitated and dragged him underwater multiple times. The bill would have banned the import, export and breeding of or-cas while requiring SeaWorld San Diego to move its 10 killer whales out of tanks and into larger sea pens. Witnesses for the marine park said that was not a viable option, and SeaWorld lobbyist Scott Wetch told lawmakers the bill would have likely resulted in the orcas being moved to parks outside the state. Public outrage over the movie drove 1.2 million people to sign a petition that was delivered Monday to the Assembly by three elemen-tary school students who successfully stopped an overnight school field trip to SeaWorld. Dozens of animal rights activists packed the hearing room on Tuesday to support the bill, with more waiting outside. SeaWorld dismissed their contention that orcas are too intelligent and too large for captivity. “That argument is not based on credible peer-reviewed science,” John Reilly, president of SeaWorld San Diego Park, said in an inter-view. “It’s based on emotion and a propaganda film.” Reilly said the bill would be detrimental because almost every visit to SeaWorld includes a killer whale show or viewing. SeaWorld has mounted an aggressive public relations campaign to discredit the film for relying on what it calls unqualified former em-ployees and biased experts. The publicly traded company bought newspaper ads, set up a web-site countering “Blackfish,” and criticized the film on Twitter. Sea- World says it expects record revenue in 2013 despite the film. Recent filings, however, showed a dip in attendance at the start of the year that the company attributes to a change in how holidays fall in the calendar year. Naomi Rose, a marine mammal scientist with the Animal Welfare Institute, a sponsor of the bill, said she was disappointed by the delay but believes science will ultimately show orcas are ill-suited for cap-tivity. “Nobody likes to wait, but I’ve been doing this for over 20 years,” she told reporters after the hearing. “I’m playing the long game.” • Pets vie for mayor in Colorado fundraiser UKRAINE: Tries to quell pro-Moscow uprisings FRANCE: France’s new prime minister wins confi dence vote INDIA: Starts voting in world’s larg-est election JAPAN: Fukushima children start school, fl ee radiation CUBA: Secret ‘Cuban Twitter’ heads to hearings in Congress March 28 - Hallett: Simplex smoke detector, technical error March 29 - UNK: Domestic, threats made off campus against ex-partner March 30 - Memorial: Theft of property, two iPhones and one basketball stolen April 1 - UNK: Theft, cash taken from unlocked cash boxes.
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