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Slight clarification: "肉" doesn't literally mean "pork" but meat is generally assumed to mean pork when not otherwise specified in China. I should've been more clear.
Fish also doesn't need 'meat' to mean the meat of fish. We just say 'Do you eat fish?' instead of 'Do you eat fish meat?' As for why we would eat plant based meat substitutes, we do that almost every day with tofu. We often eat pork and tofu in the same dish.
something that should have been easily caught with Google translate. this lack of investigative effort diminishes the validity of the entire video. the author should remember to be more careful and thorough in the future.
@Mr.BadGaming420 Being from Quebec I'd say that crepes are consumed more often than either waffles and pancakes and waffles are more common than pancakes.
The word your looking for is zoonosis. If it's not already a problem, it might very well be in the future if the disease is not either eradicated or controlled.
DirtiestHaRRy from what I've been told it's to stabilize the market so that even if a year is bad for whatever reason the effect isn't felt. Actually a really interesting way to stabilize a iconic/major export.
@@bananesalee7086 we will get them distracted by having them play hockey against Russia and Finland. Then we will ask the queen for help and ask here to get access to the reserves and since she is the head of the British armed forces. She will give us access to all the Uk's transport planes to steall all of that syrup.
The meaning of 肉 is meat but especially pork meat. If it isn't stated what animal the meat comes from then it will be pork. For example 肉包 is a steamed pork bun. You wouldn't need to write 猪肉包。However, if it was a beef bun, then 牛肉包 would be written.
@@123hallard not sure where you are getting that from because if a place sold just meat bun with no other designation i will ask them what meat. Never heard of this assumption that it is just pork by default.
@@123hallard Me, a Mandarin user. “Yes, but actually no.” We won’t say that the character “肉” is considered as pork. It’s just meat. The reason why “肉包” is always pork bun, is because that beef bun are not that common. So when you write “肉包” on the menu, most of people would thinks that is pork bun.
@@jimmylin1313 I am also a Mandarin user. The point is that meat is so synonymous with pork that you don't have to specify. Many dishes in China will be --肉. And you know it will be pork because it is the most common meat. That is how the guy in the video made the mistake that 肉 is pork.
it became a pig epidemic in the philippines. some even dumped scores of dead pigs on the river like crazy. pigs dropping dead like flies in the hundreds. hog raisers were left devastated
This is far more dangerous than climate change which we are wasting billions on. Animal diseases can decimate food production while viruses crossing over to humans could wipe out a fifth of our population
Disgusted as I watch this during the covid 19 virus. PIGS, the cheapest, filthiest meat and that's a luxury to them. The biggest swine consumers on the planet. We wonder why there is a pandemic.
I thought that was possible. Simon Whistler has, I think, 7 separate channels with various overlap of people working on them but I believe they are listed as different UA-camrs
The US petroleum reserves were started in response to OPEC and the oil embargoes and gas shortages of the 70s. Not so much our 'obsession' as a response to financial attacks on critical infrastructure.
@@LordJinkies Yeah when you build a shitty automobile infrastructure it's no would you'd need shit ton of oil that other would call it obsession. If America really developed their public transport system with rails in the 20th century and maglevs in 21st century it wouldn't waste so much oil just to move it people.
"While international attention focus on stories like hong kong protest" What attention? What news station pays attention to that anymore in fear of losing Chinese money?
I don’t know what news station you watch and maybe media manipulates you differently where you are from but the very little news I pay attention to I saw a lot about the protest back when tensions were high.
"Protest" in western media. ...then when you get into details most of the "protesters" who set Christmas trees in fire, break windows of privately owned shops and set train stations in fire.... and "protested" in certain areas to effect specific businesses while UK investors made billions on that market shorting those businesses and so on...right. Protester that are paid anarchists' with extreme left communist ideas reported as "freedom fighters" that just happen to be anti-Chinese? Protest in HK get paid a $100 daily or protest in Ukraine in the past and got paid $50 daily...reported by few media and suppressed by the mainstream. Similar to Ukrainian protesters against Russians that the protesters were accidently wearing Swastika tattoos ... and then Ukraine became free and the new anti Russian semi Nazi government treat minorities (8 larger minority groups) is somehow never get into the maintream media...why? Attention...right what attention?
Fun fact when you take your rights and liberties any person who is not brainwashed will fight back no matter the cost. Just like in every revolution that happened, as an example: Soviet Union revolution to become more democratic from authoritarian government. The same is happening in Hong Kong. Don’t defend the government which kills millions of people based on their religion. Also now even the Chinese people are protesting in China as they see how the government wants to control everyone. Give liberty and democracy to all Chinese people.
@@reggieangus5325 look man I highly doubt the US engineered the pig deaths and hk was always going o go against China bc it's culture was so different it was only a matter of time which snapped after the extradition bill.
@@reggieangus5325 Its common sense if you breed animals endlessly without regulating the conditions they are living in and dont have something like the fda to regulate it then you are bound to come into issues with the cleanliness of the food thats being produced ask anyone that has worked in a large corporation restaurant
@@thetruthalwaysscary Nah I'd say he's fairly unbiased and likes to report about things that not alot of people really know about. Plus he has a lot of videos talking about some of the cool projects that China does as well. It's also really funny since the video you listed was from the CGTN (AKA the "China Global Television Network") which is owned by the China Central Television (CCTV) and controlled by the LITERAL Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party. So you cited a Chinese propaganda network to say that Polymatter is just western media propaganda....
"Pigs are the ideal farm animals." (Proceeds to list all the reasons that make pigs such a threat, when feral) And actually, if you eat pork, they are. UNTIL THEY GO FERAL. And then they will eat the farm. And the surrounding forest. And you, the kids, and the neighbors, if you aren't fast enough.
Meanwhile Singapore has banned pork imports from neighbouring Malaysia since the 1990s outbreak of the _Nipah_ virus in the latter I think. This effectively protects local _bak kwa_ (BBQ pork slices traditionally eaten during Chinese New Year) shops from competition (posed by people otherwise buying it from shops in Malaysia (which are cheaper since Malaysia has a lower cost of living) & then bringing it into Singaproe)
I literally want to travel to a state in my country so I can kill them as a public service because they're such shitty animals I farm chickens, I'm better than that, I reccomend chickens, they're more different than us so it's harder to get their pox & flu They don't require much space, they lay eggs, they eat anything they can eat Also pork when it Cooks smells like burning garbage Anyone else? Also there's this striped shore crab that's sweeter than pork I'm planning on getting a lifetime lisence for fishing for just Crab Pork ain't shit
"3:58 the Chinese word for meat, "rou" literally means pork; all other types of meat have to be specified" Please give me a citation on this As a Chinese, I have never heard of the character used specifically for pork, but as a broad term of any type of animal's meat. We do separate fish (鱼) and meat (肉), and refer the later for muscle or fat of domesticated meat sources such as cattle or chicken. For pig, we have various characters such as 豚 (tún); 彘 (zhì); or 豕 (shǐ) in ancient Chinese. 猪 (zhū) is a younger invention. But as far as I'm concerned, no ancient Chinese or modern ones use 肉 to represent pork
Ikr. I was confused too. It might be a regional thing. My family always specifies 猪肉. So does the supermarket. 肉 sometimes implies pork, but that’s cause you’re already familiar with the family traditions - like dumpling fillings.
Mostly true for dishes. Whenever a dish consists of fish or beef, they are more explicitly named while pork dishes are usually implied by 肉。回鍋肉，鍋包肉，etc。
No, host is right. In common useage, 肉 without any prefixes means pork by default. Also, mentioning any cut of meat without specifying an animal of origin means a cut of pork. Examples: 咕咾肉 - fried (pork) meat, 麻辣脑花 - spicy (pork) brains. More examples: 酸菜白肉, 五花肉, 梅菜扣肉, 肥肠. Only exception is 夫妻肺片, which could be made with either pork or beef.
MrKalashnik0va ??? I just said it is ok to use VPN. What about this is not understandable. Dude. Just put down your prejudices and be logical. Just look at all those hyper anti China sentiments in media. 80% of them are just pure nonsense, while the rest 19% are just straight exaggeration or careful play of perspectives. Exposing ordinary and not so educated Chinese general public to these bs would be fine? Tell me which part of this logics I don’t understand. National security and stability always are the big factors.
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America certainly has food stockpiles, but oil is fundamental the the war machine and economy. Every nation has a stockpile of oil. The US just shares a giant untapped reservoir with Canada.
*Definitely not summary of video* Pooh : I love 🍯 honey Piglet: cool.. Pooh : Do you know what else I love...? Piglet: Pooh : Pork🐷 _1/4th piglets of China: Dies out of anxiety_
Veterinary student here. We learned about this in class (multiple times) and a large part of the problem is there just aren’t many veterinarians in China they have many but it is a smaller percentage of the population than it should be and they just didn’t have enough to contain this in time. the virus is gonna decimate China’s pig population but it will run its course in about 5-10 years and then the only pigs left will be those that are immune. however, it will get to the United States. All the swine veterinarians that we had talk to us about this pretty much said it was inevitable with how large the outbreak is and because we import a LOT of pigs from China. Veterinarians are so sure it will reach us that a question on the topic has become a stable question on the navle (the veterinary accreditation exam all students must take) so that we can recognize it. So just be aware that it isn’t gonna just be a China problem this will hit outside asia sooner rather than later and probably within the next 5 years.
Are you talking about the US because we don't import live pigs or any livestock for that matter with out an inspection and quarantine, in fact it is very very hard to do with any animal really. And from what I have read we don't import meat from China at all but I could have missed something.
Krystel Hardesty we import lots of pig meat from China in fact in 2018 china imported 2.1 billion dollars worth of pigs to the United States. Japan imports about twice as much but China is the 3rd highest importer.
I think u underestimate how many Chinese nationals have there families import pig related products into the United States and not all of them are brought in legally for various reasons. The virus is very stable and can survive on meat for a long time even surviving typical sterilization methods.
You might be joking but that's pretty much how most 24 hour news agencies work with some world leaders. Every time Trump farts the reporters on the right salute his new gas initiative and everyone on the left rants about how Trump launched a chemical weapons attack.
Being a chinese person, I couldn't help but laugh at your pronunciations. However, your pronunciations are significantly better than most people's, and I applaud the effort you gave. Your pronunciation on the word, Jia 家, was especially good, nailing the tone.
I'm a Taiwanese ,and we have known that for almost a year now . And our customs are very strict on pork products from China. Because 21years after the FMD epidemic. Our pigs are finally allow to enter the international market once again. So we can't allow another epidemic to happened again
Issue is that now illegal additives are gonna be even more rampant in foods since pork prices will sky rocket. These additives contain cancer causing chemicals like borax lead cadmium . Also many many farms still sell off dead sick pigs which are cut up and still sent to the market. Unless China's government has incentives for people not to do this then its gonna lead to people eating sick pigs.
@@orangerightgold7512 Taiwan doesn't have the agricultural capacity to really benefit. Maybe the EU, since the Chinese put a tariff on US pork even though they own the largest pork producer in the US. 😐😐😐😐😐😐
3:59 The Chinese word for pork is 猪肉. While sometimes if you don't specify what meat it is, you mean pork, but when you have other meat alongside, the word 猪 for pig is always used.
6:48 Never heard of any restaurant resorting to cooking with rabbit or dog meat (which is a lot more expensive than pork). However, on the other hand, price of chicken and other meats has also been affected globally as people looking for alternatives. Some reached a new high in a decade.
Yea it was weird that he said "resort to", not just because of price, but the way he described it made it sound like those meats weren't already offered as their own dishes. Maybe the sources he was looking at phrased it that way and he didn't know the status quo?
First indication of that I saw was from a video made by "the great war" Serbia before the first world war provided the AH empire with a large amount of it's pork
3:10 That graph missing two values is suspicious, though I'm believe both Montenegro and Serbia had at least a slightly higher GDP (PPP) per capita in 2016.
8:56 If China's had the same authoritarian model for almost 100 years. Why would we conclude *that* is responsible for it's (exlusively recent) growth? The real growth only began as China softened its economic authoritarianism in an attempt to mimic the massive growth Hong Kong already saw.
That and the high speed rail technology was stolen off France, the electric car technology off Japan etc. They don't create much, like the Soviets mostly relied on reverse engineering others tech.
China is the steady state for all governments. Economic crony capitalism under tight totalitarian government supervision with no opposition. The have been plenty of extinctions, chemical poisoning, etc that make China an environmental garbage dump. The twats of the world do not realize the obvious truth that government thirsts for money and the controlled capitalism is what feeds government the best. Government is not free.
@@cingkrimson4719 The USA government heavily pushed a Food Pyramid where citizens were told that grains/carbs should be the primary source of food in their diet. The American diet became one where not only did people eat more carbs, but mostly processed carbs. This led to major health issues down the road, as we now know that excessive carbs, especially wheat, corn and sugar, cause obesity and inflammation. America became the most overweight and drugged country in the world. That "Food Pagoda" image from China is showing the Chinese government is telling their citizens the same thing. Because grains are much cheaper than fresh fruit/vegetables or meat.
@Bitch No, the problem is the diet. There are people in America who exercise a ton and people in China who don't. The difference is, people in China eat a ton more vegetables and lean meat. When you're already thin and healthy, the carbs are used by your muscles and organs as fuel. When you're overweight, the carbs get stored as fat, because you already have an excess of energy. Then there's also the problem of inflammation. Which wheat and sugar are destroying people's guts, which leads to a problem digesting food. It's called leaky gut. And while most studies of this stuff have been very flawed, the triggers have been linked to gluten and sugar. This can be seen by the sharp increase in food allergies in Asian people who have started to eat a lot of wheat bread and sugar. If left unchecked for a few generations, places like China and Japan will turn into what America is now.
Excellent video and well said, re: 'democracy is a luxury of the well-off middle class'. Most Chinese people are concerned with stability and economic prosperity because these factors have much more of a direct impact on their lives than democracy. If China is to become a democracy, it must first develop a robust middle class.
@@theyoten1613 Yep. It's like every time China's regime changes, tens of millions of Chinese people die and hundreds of millions become impoverished. The switching costs are extremely high.
The true freedom and democracy is living rich and having much. If you even cannot feed yourself, how to find the "democracy"? And what makes people rich and live in a high-standard life is truly real "democracy".
"In 2012, the year of the dragon was celebrated with giant statues in malls, parade floats, billboards and in Hong Kong, Dragon-shaped fireworks.. The only things missing were actual dragons."
i really liked your pronunciation of the characters and your seeming knowladge of them, and how you know what "radical" means edit: the characters were pronounced better than the avg foreigner
Not true. 肉 is generally assumed as pork. 猪肉is mostly unnecessary to specify. I hope you understand chinese although you seem not very much know about China. 蒜苔炒肉，农家小炒肉，东坡肉，你会问“是猪肉还是牛肉”，你会自然认为是猪肉。炖牛腩，孜然羊肉，如果去掉牛羊，就等于是猪肉了。炖肉，就是炖猪肉，孜然肉片，也是猪肉。红烧肉和红烧牛肉我也不用解释了，根本没人说红烧猪肉。视频讲解的其实很到位，猪肉在中国确实是default的
@@user-lx5mc5ld1x I think what polymatter tries to implicate in the video is, as a single character, 肉 literally means pig-meat, which is wrong. Sure in daily life we simply call pig meat MEAT in China, just as in the west people call cow milk MILK and other milks oat milk or goat milk etc.
Because it is a free trade area with common trade laws. It is also a massive economy when you lump all the nations together, making it easier to compare to the likes the the US or China.
@@zoravar.k7904 Then why use small countries like Montenegro and Serbia as examples... Doesn't really give a clear picture about consumption of pig. There are a lot of European countries that eat more pork than China per capita (like Austria, Germany, Poland, Spain, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Croatia, Portugal, Hungary, Italy and Latvia). It's a historical and cultural thing and since there are a lot of different cultures in Europe this video is very much incorrect.
It's great to see you share your interest in China with all these very nicely made and well informed videos you create and share but there are some obvious linguistic inaccuracies that many commenters pointed out. The obvious one being pork (猪肉) vs meat (肉) and the less obvious one being fish (鱼) and fish meat (鱼肉). I've never heard anyone ever say fish meat (鱼肉), it sounds super awkward, everyone just calls it fish (鱼). The other thing is that, I think for ordinary Chinese people in China, it's not a surprise that the vast majority of people say they would eat a meat substitute. Meat substitutes were piratically invented in the country! The country has had millennia of Buddhist and Taoist influence that encourages vegetarianism, maybe not life-long for ordinary people but very religious people would often take a few weeks a year of vegetarianism. So the Chinese are no strangers to vegetarianism and vegetarian diets, they just don't follow the western requirement of a life-long commitment to it. Also it's actually pretty easy to get by as a vegetarian in China, it contradicts the experience of pretty much all Chinese restaurants in the West provide with meat heavy menus, but the Chinese have been trying to accommodate Buddhist and Taoist vegetarians for millennia. There are quite a few youtube travel vloggers that try to be vegetarian in China and it's pretty easy.
mate, can you point me to your source on "肉" literally meaning pork? "猪肉" doesn't have the same redundant feeling as "ATM machine". (I know it's totally not the point of the video, but still curious)
I was personally taught 肉 meant meat in general, not pork specifically. 猪肉 being pig meat-or pork. It seems like there might have been a misunderstanding in the translation PolyMatter found?
And it's the wrong shape. Far too long. And it's red on the back in the middle. But really. That's what you get from this video? A small error in one graphic?
I was gonna reply but then I saw the other replies and was just extremely confused and concerned I'm almost 100% sure you to are children based on the way you're talking, or I guess typing
@@ras573 Well, that may be. But still, if everything else fails, at least they have vodka. ;p This is probably what they could let go as the very last thing.
"No one expects China to suddenly become the leader in artificially grown mean" China: Hold my pork... 2030: "China is now the leader of artificially grown meat"
As a Canadian I am absolutely delightef to know we have a maple syrup reserve in case of emergency. The zombies might come but we'll still have our waffles damnit
Chinese will eat anything. One of the most disgusting photos I ever saw was a Chinese woman squatting by a cooking pot in which she was boiling a puppy. A couple of kids were squatting in the background watching her. I almost puked.
Dog-eating is a very regional thing in China. It's a tradition for only a small number of people living in certain areas. And the dog meat they consume is usually from dogs specially bred for meat. Many Chinese people who do not eat dogs do consider this practice disgusting, but imo it's just culture, and dog isn't really superior to other animals like cattle or sheep. However, I heard it is true that some street dogs might be captured and eaten, but that doesn't seem to be a common practice.
Any agricultural product that can be stored will maintain a reserve to stabilize market prices. Without reserves, prices would fluctuate wild with seasonal production. The syrup reserve is from Quebec syrup producers and is not government run.
@@riversandtrees you and senk crack me up. we are over 7billion people. where do you think all those hamburgers come from? we thought everybody knew we have ranchers who raise huge herds so we can all eat. no ranchers and 98% of all livestock animals would not exist. if you ban meat you would kill billions of innocent animals that would never get to live at all.
Hot take: Increased pork prices led people to buy more "non traditional meat" especially in poorer centres of China. Wonder if some certain infected bats never would have made it on the menu otherwise......
In the west, mantaining or slightly improving conditions can keep one in power. In dictatorships, no one cares about your living conditions. In china however, raising living standards are what keeps its government in power
Not everywhere. In India, it depends upon how much the govt. can avoid real issues and keep the Hindus and Muslims always at each others' throat. This is why India is still such a big shithole.
Niu is actually pronounced like the english word "new" while fish sounds like "yea" in the english word yeast. You nailed the pork and home in chinese 😃
Polymatter’s China videos are becoming increasingly objective, informative, and accurate. I wish the western media can learn a bit from you. Good work.
Chinese farmers used to raise a limited number of pigs. This was mainly because they could only have a certain amount of feed for them. In my mother's youth, she used to find and harvest some herb-like plants for the one or two pigs her family was raising. Raising more pigs was not possible due to limited feed for them. And they could enjoy fresh pork during the CNY, and during the other days of the year, they ate salted pork, and of course, not often.
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How do pre-existing CuriosityStream subscribers get Nebula without paying for a separate subscription?
I have signed up for curiositystream (3 hours ago) with your link but didn't get an email for Nebula (checked spam and ads folders). I was sort of interested in Curiositystream but the Nebula deal really made me pull the trigger. Is there anything I can do?
@@Knakkerman- I agree I have also just bought curiosity stream with the link and didnt receive anything from nebula.
@@madvova118 Good to know I am not the only one.
Wow, guess Pooh was right when he said that he couldn't do without his best friend Piglet.
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Slight clarification: "肉" doesn't literally mean "pork" but meat is generally assumed to mean pork when not otherwise specified in China. I should've been more clear.
Like মাংস in Bengali means meat, but generally refers to chicken meat, and use খাসি মাংস for Mutton শুয়োরের মাংস for Pork!
Fish also doesn't need 'meat' to mean the meat of fish. We just say 'Do you eat fish?' instead of 'Do you eat fish meat?'
As for why we would eat plant based meat substitutes, we do that almost every day with tofu. We often eat pork and tofu in the same dish.
It looks like the character for meat in japanese, "Niku"
Gacha Man Sama because Japanese was originally made from Chinese
something that should have been easily caught with Google translate. this lack of investigative effort diminishes the validity of the entire video. the author should remember to be more careful and thorough in the future.
Lived in Canada all my life and thought the Maple Syrup reserve was a joke.
It seems to not be a joke
It may seem funny, but they have good reason because the effect of a syrup shortage on Canada's economy could be catastrophic.
You only really hear about it in Québec because that's where most of it is produced and stored.
First time this Canadian has heard of it too.
@Mr.BadGaming420 Being from Quebec I'd say that crepes are consumed more often than either waffles and pancakes and waffles are more common than pancakes.
"The virus isn't dangerous to humans..."
Yet
ive played enough Plague inc. to know where this is heading
I hate how true this is.
The word your looking for is zoonosis. If it's not already a problem, it might very well be in the future if the disease is not either eradicated or controlled.
Pig Insulin, heart valves, population research is all used in place of humans for very good reason.
Pig with human immune system genetic hybrid!
England has the strategic tea reserves
And France has the National strategic Baguette and Croissant reserves
England obtained said strategic Tea reserves from SrI Lanka. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka, now, maintains strategic idiot reserves.
India has the strategic tech support reserves 😂😂
History shows us England will go to far lengths for that TEA.
KISHANTH JEYAMOORTHY
Canada as emergency reserves of apologising and being nice
Most interesting info on this video was that canada has emergency maple syrup reserve lol
DirtiestHaRRy from what I've been told it's to stabilize the market so that even if a year is bad for whatever reason the effect isn't felt. Actually a really interesting way to stabilize a iconic/major export.
No pancake shall go dry as long as the brave men and women of the maple syrup reserve do their job!
Someone robbed the maple syrup reserve in the early 2000s and everyone went crazy
this is nearly comical XD im for a strategic choclate reserve whos with me?
americans have an emergency fat reserve. Every american carries it.
"Canada has the strategic maple syrup reserve"
Well now i know what i am raiding.
share your plan buddy
We'll storm the maple syrup reserve together, they can't stop all of us :D
@@bananesalee7086 we will get them distracted by having them play hockey against Russia and Finland. Then we will ask the queen for help and ask here to get access to the reserves and since she is the head of the British armed forces. She will give us access to all the Uk's transport planes to steall all of that syrup.
You a bit late to do that, they already have organized crime stealing from it.
@@Evruu man i know that this entire thread is a joke
the word translation for pork meat is wrong. the 肉 character simply means meat. 猪 means pig. so pork is actually the two characters put together 猪+肉
That was what I was thinking!
The meaning of 肉 is meat but especially pork meat. If it isn't stated what animal the meat comes from then it will be pork. For example 肉包 is a steamed pork bun. You wouldn't need to write 猪肉包。However, if it was a beef bun, then 牛肉包 would be written.
@@123hallard not sure where you are getting that from because if a place sold just meat bun with no other designation i will ask them what meat. Never heard of this assumption that it is just pork by default.
@@123hallard Me, a Mandarin user.
“Yes, but actually no.”
We won’t say that the character “肉” is considered as pork. It’s just meat. The reason why “肉包” is always pork bun, is because that beef bun are not that common. So when you write “肉包” on the menu, most of people would thinks that is pork bun.
@@jimmylin1313 I am also a Mandarin user. The point is that meat is so synonymous with pork that you don't have to specify. Many dishes in China will be --肉. And you know it will be pork because it is the most common meat. That is how the guy in the video made the mistake that 肉 is pork.
Damn and this came out before the coronavirus was a epidemic
it became a pig epidemic in the philippines. some even dumped scores of dead pigs on the river like crazy. pigs dropping dead like flies in the hundreds. hog raisers were left devastated
This is far more dangerous than climate change which we are wasting billions on. Animal diseases can decimate food production while viruses crossing over to humans could wipe out a fifth of our population
@@nihilistcentraluk442 plant base life style or been vegan helps both climate change and the animal disease aspect
Disgusted as I watch this during the covid 19 virus. PIGS, the cheapest, filthiest meat and that's a luxury to them. The biggest swine consumers on the planet. We wonder why there is a pandemic.
Because of the wipeout of the pork market and subsequent jump in the price of supermarket meat guess where the poor people then went to buy meat.
0:59 Not a single turn signal turned on while switching lanes lol.
Anarchy! Lol
watchcode haha, traffic rules are the same but practiced differently
Haha were not so different after all
doesnt even look like theres different lanes people are switching so much
Welcome to China
When Wendover Productions and Half As Interesting are listed as separate UA-camrs XD
the commentator is the same, the animators aren't
I thought that was possible. Simon Whistler has, I think, 7 separate channels with various overlap of people working on them but I believe they are listed as different UA-camrs
HAI is also more silly and short, where Wendover is more serious, longer, and has higher production value
Found a way not to get snuffed out by youtube
... and germany has a tactical beer reserve xD
Italy has a secret pasta stockpile in tunnels under the Alps.
but not in Fort Knox, they are all in Bavaria,
Oh no.
Omg. Please tell me this is true
Jemand Deutsches hier
"Canada has the strategic maple syrup reserves" Yep sounds about right. At least our soldiers wont choke on their food.
rustyscrapper eh
😂
"Many countries have reserves of their national obsessions, such as America's Natural Petroleum Reserve"
*oof*
Super Smash Dolls hell yeah! and pancake syrup for Canada lol Heard Japan is wasabi and used girls underwear
The US petroleum reserves were started in response to OPEC and the oil embargoes and gas shortages of the 70s. Not so much our 'obsession' as a response to financial attacks on critical infrastructure.
this makes more sense than syrup tea or pigs you dipshit
@@LordJinkies Thats literally what an obsession is.
@@LordJinkies Yeah when you build a shitty automobile infrastructure it's no would you'd need shit ton of oil that other would call it obsession.
If America really developed their public transport system with rails in the 20th century and maglevs in 21st century it wouldn't waste so much oil just to move it people.
"While international attention focus on stories like hong kong protest"
What attention? What news station pays attention to that anymore in fear of losing Chinese money?
I don’t know what news station you watch and maybe media manipulates you differently where you are from but the very little news I pay attention to I saw a lot about the protest back when tensions were high.
(This was before Covid)
"Protest" in western media. ...then when you get into details most of the "protesters" who set Christmas trees in fire, break windows of privately owned shops and set train stations in fire.... and "protested" in certain areas to effect specific businesses while UK investors made billions on that market shorting those businesses and so on...right. Protester that are paid anarchists' with extreme left communist ideas reported as "freedom fighters" that just happen to be anti-Chinese? Protest in HK get paid a $100 daily or protest in Ukraine in the past and got paid $50 daily...reported by few media and suppressed by the mainstream. Similar to Ukrainian protesters against Russians that the protesters were accidently wearing Swastika tattoos ... and then Ukraine became free and the new anti Russian semi Nazi government treat minorities (8 larger minority groups) is somehow never get into the maintream media...why? Attention...right what attention?
The woke west culture only cares about protest from peaceful religion.
Fun fact when you take your rights and liberties any person who is not brainwashed will fight back no matter the cost. Just like in every revolution that happened, as an example: Soviet Union revolution to become more democratic from authoritarian government. The same is happening in Hong Kong. Don’t defend the government which kills millions of people based on their religion. Also now even the Chinese people are protesting in China as they see how the government wants to control everyone. Give liberty and democracy to all Chinese people.
it's true, the people and the government in mainland China is more worried about pork prices than the riots in Hong Kong.
Both started by the U.S. One as a biological weapon (infections started happening just after the trade war) and a coup.
@@reggieangus5325 how much does the ccp pay to be a shill?
@@blackbelt1158 He's just being ethnocentric...
@@reggieangus5325 look man I highly doubt the US engineered the pig deaths and hk was always going o go against China bc it's culture was so different it was only a matter of time which snapped after the extradition bill.
@@reggieangus5325 Its common sense if you breed animals endlessly without regulating the conditions they are living in and dont have something like the fda to regulate it then you are bound to come into issues with the cleanliness of the food thats being produced ask anyone that has worked in a large corporation restaurant
China: *does anything*
Polymatter: it’s free real estate
*China*matter
Polumatter is more like western media as this video states ua-cam.com/video/vWR9he6QnjY/v-deo.html
@@thetruthalwaysscary Nah I'd say he's fairly unbiased and likes to report about things that not alot of people really know about. Plus he has a lot of videos talking about some of the cool projects that China does as well. It's also really funny since the video you listed was from the CGTN (AKA the "China Global Television Network") which is owned by the China Central Television (CCTV) and controlled by the LITERAL Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party. So you cited a Chinese propaganda network to say that Polymatter is just western media propaganda....
"Pigs are the ideal farm animals."
(Proceeds to list all the reasons that make pigs such a threat, when feral)
And actually, if you eat pork, they are.
UNTIL THEY GO FERAL. And then they will eat the farm. And the surrounding forest.
And you, the kids, and the neighbors, if you aren't fast enough.
Meanwhile Singapore has banned pork imports from neighbouring Malaysia since the 1990s outbreak of the _Nipah_ virus in the latter I think. This effectively protects local _bak kwa_ (BBQ pork slices traditionally eaten during Chinese New Year) shops from competition (posed by people otherwise buying it from shops in Malaysia (which are cheaper since Malaysia has a lower cost of living) & then bringing it into Singaproe)
I literally want to travel to a state in my country so I can kill them as a public service because they're such shitty animals
I farm chickens, I'm better than that, I reccomend chickens, they're more different than us so it's harder to get their pox & flu
They don't require much space, they lay eggs, they eat anything they can eat
Also pork when it Cooks smells like burning garbage
Anyone else?
Also there's this striped shore crab that's sweeter than pork
I'm planning on getting a lifetime lisence for fishing for just Crab
Pork ain't shit
"3:58 the Chinese word for meat, "rou" literally means pork; all other types of meat have to be specified"
Please give me a citation on this
As a Chinese, I have never heard of the character used specifically for pork, but as a broad term of any type of animal's meat.
We do separate fish (鱼) and meat (肉), and refer the later for muscle or fat of domesticated meat sources such as cattle or chicken.
For pig, we have various characters such as 豚 (tún); 彘 (zhì); or 豕 (shǐ) in ancient Chinese. 猪 (zhū) is a younger invention.
But as far as I'm concerned, no ancient Chinese or modern ones use 肉 to represent pork
老外的理解不准确。不过在南方，我们说吃肉，基本都是指的吃猪肉。
肉 胾肉。象形。凡肉之屬皆从肉。
清代 段玉裁《說文解字注》
胾肉。
下文曰。胾、大臠也。謂鳥獸之肉。說文之例。先人後物。何以先言肉也。曰以爲部首。不得不首言之也。生民之初。食鳥獸之肉。故肉字冣古。而製人體之字。用肉爲偏旁。是亦假借也。人曰肌。鳥獸曰肉。此其分別也。引伸爲爾雅肉好、樂記廉肉字。
Off topic but when I’m he pronounced the words I kind of wanted to cry.
Ikr. I was confused too.
It might be a regional thing. My family always specifies 猪肉. So does the supermarket. 肉 sometimes implies pork, but that’s cause you’re already familiar with the family traditions - like dumpling fillings.
Mostly true for dishes. Whenever a dish consists of fish or beef, they are more explicitly named while pork dishes are usually implied by 肉。回鍋肉，鍋包肉，etc。
Correction: 豬肉 is pork, not just 肉. 豬肉 is pronounced "Zhū ròu"
The Piano Haven yea smh 肉 literally means meat
But when you have 肉片, it's assumed that you mean pork.
William Steed no?
@@wsteed6284 No... that's sliced meat.
No, host is right. In common useage, 肉 without any prefixes means pork by default. Also, mentioning any cut of meat without specifying an animal of origin means a cut of pork. Examples: 咕咾肉 - fried (pork) meat, 麻辣脑花 - spicy (pork) brains. More examples: 酸菜白肉, 五花肉, 梅菜扣肉, 肥肠. Only exception is 夫妻肺片, which could be made with either pork or beef.
China : breathes
Polymatter : Why Chinese people are breathing and how ?
Ryan Vickers ？I am breathing pretty normally. Writing from Shenzhen.
MrKalashnik0va ？i have been using VPN for 4 to 5 years now. Stop spreading nonsense 🙂
This aged well.
@@potatonoodlebear8035 别管那个傻逼
MrKalashnik0va ??? I just said it is ok to use VPN. What about this is not understandable. Dude. Just put down your prejudices and be logical.
Just look at all those hyper anti China sentiments in media. 80% of them are just pure nonsense, while the rest 19% are just straight exaggeration or careful play of perspectives. Exposing ordinary and not so educated Chinese general public to these bs would be fine? Tell me which part of this logics I don’t understand. National security and stability always are the big factors.
“How much China do you want?”
PolyMatter: ...yes
Paid pro china propaganda
@@whoopsala2589 he is pretty neutral
there are a couple of channels that focus on specific things. I think it was Wendover doing plane videos all the time. Polymatter just picked china
@@olaf421 and he also doesn't cover China THAT much, if you look at his uploads he has a lot of non China related videos
Yeah seems suspicious
Hey Evan, I am Surprised you didn’t announce your 1 million subscribers. I remember watching when you only had somewhere 300K subscribers and it’s been great seeing your channel grow, and I have been enjoying your videos since then. That’s why I decided to support you in Patron and everyone should.
Thank you very much! I don't like making milestone videos but I appreciate your support very much.
@@PolyMatter Go siame, rra :)
"The virus isn't dangerous to humans"
the virus sometime in the future (probably):
*y e e t*
Scooty789 yes
Lmao YEET
Oh how well your comment aged...
@@PaperThePenguin this comment aimt about coroma
Yeeeeeeee
6:08
What do you keep in your emergency reserves?
Canada: Food
China: Food
America: *OIL*
Brazil has soy bean but we don't eat (usually).
Oil is way more important than Pork or Maple Syrup lol
America certainly has food stockpiles, but oil is fundamental the the war machine and economy. Every nation has a stockpile of oil. The US just shares a giant untapped reservoir with Canada.
Correction: Canada has Strategic Maple Syrup reserves, not simple foodstuffs.
North Korea: Nukes. Nah just starvation.
Switzerland has the strategic chocolate reserves
chocolate watches.
Yourie Favre and Austria has Red Bull yes?
@@denisebilby4947 Precisely, as Mexico has strategic tacos reserves
Yourie Favre Im moving to Switzerland as soon as the airplanes start flying again
@@yeeted9466 Which city?
*Definitely not summary of video*
Pooh : I love 🍯 honey
Piglet: cool..
Pooh : Do you know what else I love...?
Piglet:
Pooh : Pork🐷
_1/4th piglets of China: Dies out of anxiety_
Veterinary student here. We learned about this in class (multiple times) and a large part of the problem is there just aren’t many veterinarians in China they have many but it is a smaller percentage of the population than it should be and they just didn’t have enough to contain this in time. the virus is gonna decimate China’s pig population but it will run its course in about 5-10 years and then the only pigs left will be those that are immune. however, it will get to the United States. All the swine veterinarians that we had talk to us about this pretty much said it was inevitable with how large the outbreak is and because we import a LOT of pigs from China. Veterinarians are so sure it will reach us that a question on the topic has become a stable question on the navle (the veterinary accreditation exam all students must take) so that we can recognize it. So just be aware that it isn’t gonna just be a China problem this will hit outside asia sooner rather than later and probably within the next 5 years.
Are you talking about the US because we don't import live pigs or any livestock for that matter with out an inspection and quarantine, in fact it is very very hard to do with any animal really. And from what I have read we don't import meat from China at all but I could have missed something.
Krystel Hardesty we import lots of pig meat from China in fact in 2018 china imported 2.1 billion dollars worth of pigs to the United States. Japan imports about twice as much but China is the 3rd highest importer.
I think u underestimate how many Chinese nationals have there families import pig related products into the United States and not all of them are brought in legally for various reasons. The virus is very stable and can survive on meat for a long time even surviving typical sterilization methods.
*China exists*
Polymatter: Write that down! Write that down!!1!
xddd
what a funny joke, man! where do you get your ideas from?
You might be joking but that's pretty much how most 24 hour news agencies work with some world leaders. Every time Trump farts the reporters on the right salute his new gas initiative and everyone on the left rants about how Trump launched a chemical weapons attack.
Being a chinese person, I couldn't help but laugh at your pronunciations. However, your pronunciations are significantly better than most people's, and I applaud the effort you gave. Your pronunciation on the word, Jia 家, was especially good, nailing the tone.
k
As a Mandarin learner, the first tone (--) is very easy to pronounce
I have a really hard time getting the second (/) and fourth (\) tones down...
@@theramendutchman i think of it like this
the 1st tome is basic
the 2nd tone is questioning
the 3rd tone is disappointment
the 4th is surprising
@@l1ngl1ng69 Yo stop stealing my dogs and cooking them bro its not cool
@@stoggafllik bruh im low on stock dude
I'm a Taiwanese ,and we have known that for almost a year now
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And our customs are very strict on pork products from China.
Because 21years after the FMD epidemic.
Our pigs are finally allow to enter the international market once again.
So we can't allow another epidemic to happened again
列寧佛拉迪米爾·伊里奇. Who are you going to vote for in the January 2020 presidential election?? 😐😐😐😐😐
Issue is that now illegal additives are gonna be even more rampant in foods since pork prices will sky rocket. These additives contain cancer causing chemicals like borax lead cadmium . Also many many farms still sell off dead sick pigs which are cut up and still sent to the market. Unless China's government has incentives for people not to do this then its gonna lead to people eating sick pigs.
Isnt this a great opportunity to make a killing selling taiwanese pork to china?
@@tonychambers9228 As ASF doesn't transfer to humans, eating pigs killed by ASF should be relatively harmless. 😐😐😐😐😐
@@orangerightgold7512 Taiwan doesn't have the agricultural capacity to really benefit. Maybe the EU, since the Chinese put a tariff on US pork even though they own the largest pork producer in the US.
😐😐😐😐😐😐
Wow, the amount of research and work you put into this video is truly impressive. Kudos.
3:59 The Chinese word for pork is 猪肉. While sometimes if you don't specify what meat it is, you mean pork, but when you have other meat alongside, the word 猪 for pig is always used.
I'm impressed by your pronunciations. Many of them were very accurate! Keep up the good work! :)
It also has reached Luzon, the northern part of the Philippines
Bro ur animation and transition is very satisfying !
6:48 Never heard of any restaurant resorting to cooking with rabbit or dog meat (which is a lot more expensive than pork). However, on the other hand, price of chicken and other meats has also been affected globally as people looking for alternatives. Some reached a new high in a decade.
Yea it was weird that he said "resort to", not just because of price, but the way he described it made it sound like those meats weren't already offered as their own dishes. Maybe the sources he was looking at phrased it that way and he didn't know the status quo?
Serbia is the biggest consumer of pork per capita? Really? I mean, it's believable, but I didn't expect that 😂
@Eric Cartman znam, ali nisam očekivao baš toliko
First indication of that I saw was from a video made by "the great war" Serbia before the first world war provided the AH empire with a large amount of it's pork
Jedemo najgore smeće
@@christianweibrecht6555 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1906-08)
3:10 That graph missing two values is suspicious, though I'm believe both Montenegro and Serbia had at least a slightly higher GDP (PPP) per capita in 2016.
8:56 If China's had the same authoritarian model for almost 100 years. Why would we conclude *that* is responsible for it's (exlusively recent) growth?
The real growth only began as China softened its economic authoritarianism in an attempt to mimic the massive growth Hong Kong already saw.
Travis Ryno thank you
Wrong, China had the same authoritarian model for almost 5000 years
That and the high speed rail technology was stolen off France, the electric car technology off Japan etc. They don't create much, like the Soviets mostly relied on reverse engineering others tech.
@@jackvenables4981 so?
China is the steady state for all governments. Economic crony capitalism under tight totalitarian government supervision with no opposition. The have been plenty of extinctions, chemical poisoning, etc that make China an environmental garbage dump.
The twats of the world do not realize the obvious truth that government thirsts for money and the controlled capitalism is what feeds government the best. Government is not free.
I went to china during golden week, the traffic was absolutely insane
Thanks you so much.polymatter
I learn so much more from you than any schools.
5:27 Little nitpick, but I don't think that's the current flag of Mongolia.
Too lazy to find out properly, so I'll go check Geography Now flag Friday.
It can't fit the entire flag. Just like Vietnam he only put the symbols on the flag
Chinese government: "Eat more grains! Here's a food pagoda!"
US: "You're really going to regret that decision in about 50 years."
Care to explain what tgis means?
@@cingkrimson4719 The USA government heavily pushed a Food Pyramid where citizens were told that grains/carbs should be the primary source of food in their diet. The American diet became one where not only did people eat more carbs, but mostly processed carbs. This led to major health issues down the road, as we now know that excessive carbs, especially wheat, corn and sugar, cause obesity and inflammation. America became the most overweight and drugged country in the world. That "Food Pagoda" image from China is showing the Chinese government is telling their citizens the same thing. Because grains are much cheaper than fresh fruit/vegetables or meat.
Lol CCP
@Bitch No, the problem is the diet. There are people in America who exercise a ton and people in China who don't. The difference is, people in China eat a ton more vegetables and lean meat. When you're already thin and healthy, the carbs are used by your muscles and organs as fuel. When you're overweight, the carbs get stored as fat, because you already have an excess of energy.
Then there's also the problem of inflammation. Which wheat and sugar are destroying people's guts, which leads to a problem digesting food. It's called leaky gut. And while most studies of this stuff have been very flawed, the triggers have been linked to gluten and sugar. This can be seen by the sharp increase in food allergies in Asian people who have started to eat a lot of wheat bread and sugar. If left unchecked for a few generations, places like China and Japan will turn into what America is now.
@Bitch your name made my day
I hate to say this，Im Chinese and I have learn more in depth analysis from you channel than watch our own news.
Well, that explains why China lifted their suspension of pork imports from Canada in November.
Mind you after Chinfluenza there might not be as many Pork Consumers left.
Should let them starved , no corn , wheat , poultry export what so ever
@@benoitlaferriere5420 punish the government not the civilians
@@excessiveone9952 But what did the Government do?
@@excessiveone9952 I agree punish the government which set these horrible thing on its people. Free the Chinese people from authoritarian government.
Excellent video and well said, re: 'democracy is a luxury of the well-off middle class'. Most Chinese people are concerned with stability and economic prosperity because these factors have much more of a direct impact on their lives than democracy. If China is to become a democracy, it must first develop a robust middle class.
It's because China is too big. Even in history China was either broken up, or under an Autoritarian regime.
Kinda sucks
And to develop a middle class it needs to remove communism and use capitalism
@@theyoten1613 Yep. It's like every time China's regime changes, tens of millions of Chinese people die and hundreds of millions become impoverished. The switching costs are extremely high.
@@theendurance Yes, to an extent. They are currently using state-capitalism/ market socialism.
The true freedom and democracy is living rich and having much. If you even cannot feed yourself, how to find the "democracy"? And what makes people rich and live in a high-standard life is truly real "democracy".
"In 2012, the year of the dragon was celebrated with giant statues in malls, parade floats, billboards and in Hong Kong, Dragon-shaped fireworks.. The only things missing were actual dragons."
i really liked your pronunciation of the characters and your seeming knowladge of them, and how you know what "radical" means
edit: the characters were pronounced better than the avg foreigner
Ya, he knows more than the avg person. His pronunciations weren't good though.
His pronunciation of 家 was spot on but the rest were pretty rough, especially for 魚 lol
@@GregCannon7 The magic of accent dare I say.
@@numuves you know what i mean
@@GregCannon7 yea i noticed too
In Pakistan, the word meat (Gosht گوشت) is default for Beef.
Very informative. Thank you Poly
Not really, pig meat is 猪肉, there's still an adjective there. 肉 is just meat.
Pig-meat
Not true. 肉 is generally assumed as pork. 猪肉is mostly unnecessary to specify. I hope you understand chinese although you seem not very much know about China.
蒜苔炒肉，农家小炒肉，东坡肉，你会问“是猪肉还是牛肉”，你会自然认为是猪肉。炖牛腩，孜然羊肉，如果去掉牛羊，就等于是猪肉了。炖肉，就是炖猪肉，孜然肉片，也是猪肉。红烧肉和红烧牛肉我也不用解释了，根本没人说红烧猪肉。视频讲解的其实很到位，猪肉在中国确实是default的
Like it matters.
@@user-lx5mc5ld1x I think what polymatter tries to implicate in the video is, as a single character, 肉 literally means pig-meat, which is wrong. Sure in daily life we simply call pig meat MEAT in China, just as in the west people call cow milk MILK and other milks oat milk or goat milk etc.
In everyday spoken Chinese, people say 我吃了肉 and it means they ate pork.
@3:35
Apple: China, you've almost closed your rings! Try eating more pork to make your goal!
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Ah yes, the great nation of... the European Union?
Is there a statistics-related reason as to why the EU was counted as one nation?
Soon
Because it is a free trade area with common trade laws. It is also a massive economy when you lump all the nations together, making it easier to compare to the likes the the US or China.
@@zoravar.k7904 Then why use small countries like Montenegro and Serbia as examples... Doesn't really give a clear picture about consumption of pig. There are a lot of European countries that eat more pork than China per capita (like Austria, Germany, Poland, Spain, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Croatia, Portugal, Hungary, Italy and Latvia). It's a historical and cultural thing and since there are a lot of different cultures in Europe this video is very much incorrect.
@@UrosDrljaca Please no
@@kyda7972 Montenegro and Serbia aren't part of the EU.
It's great to see you share your interest in China with all these very nicely made and well informed videos you create and share but there are some obvious linguistic inaccuracies that many commenters pointed out. The obvious one being pork (猪肉) vs meat (肉) and the less obvious one being fish (鱼) and fish meat (鱼肉). I've never heard anyone ever say fish meat (鱼肉), it sounds super awkward, everyone just calls it fish (鱼).
The other thing is that, I think for ordinary Chinese people in China, it's not a surprise that the vast majority of people say they would eat a meat substitute. Meat substitutes were piratically invented in the country! The country has had millennia of Buddhist and Taoist influence that encourages vegetarianism, maybe not life-long for ordinary people but very religious people would often take a few weeks a year of vegetarianism. So the Chinese are no strangers to vegetarianism and vegetarian diets, they just don't follow the western requirement of a life-long commitment to it. Also it's actually pretty easy to get by as a vegetarian in China, it contradicts the experience of pretty much all Chinese restaurants in the West provide with meat heavy menus, but the Chinese have been trying to accommodate Buddhist and Taoist vegetarians for millennia. There are quite a few youtube travel vloggers that try to be vegetarian in China and it's pretty easy.
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mate, can you point me to your source on "肉" literally meaning pork? "猪肉" doesn't have the same redundant feeling as "ATM machine".
(I know it's totally not the point of the video, but still curious)
It means meat not pork lol
I was personally taught 肉 meant meat in general, not pork specifically. 猪肉 being pig meat-or pork. It seems like there might have been a misunderstanding in the translation PolyMatter found?
@@kingtysonsworld Yeah, it is directly meat, not pork.
a simple Google translate would have been able to catch the error but the author did not bother to investigate
Luke Li how about you look at their comment before acting like your smarter than them
8:12, Starbucks just closed 2000 stores in china. 😆😂🤣
Starbucks is crap
And Luckin Coffee had a bit of a ''hiccup''.
www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-sec-luckincoffee-idUSKBN28Q34P
6:08 there’s no way if you were to flatten out that flag would the maple leaf be in the middle...
And it's the wrong shape. Far too long.
And it's red on the back in the middle.
But really. That's what you get from this video? A small error in one graphic?
@7:08 "...awakens Grim memories of China's dark, and hungry past..."
That IS an obsession with Bacon!
High quality video, informational, having a good time watching it, I must be dreaming!
Mexico has strategic tacos reserves.
US: Storm area 51
Chinese: Storm the Strategic Pork Reserve
And there’s an outbreak in China causing trouble breathing, fever, vomiting and death.
😳😳😳
U are a virus
No ones heard of u
I was gonna reply but then I saw the other replies and was just extremely confused and concerned
I'm almost 100% sure you to are children based on the way you're talking, or I guess typing
Lies
@@yeeted9466 Ed ur 1000 years old bud stfu
One correction, it should be “pig underneath the character roof” not the other way around
That makes far more sense. 😅
The video says “... the character roof, underneath, the character for pig.” The narrator didn’t pause long enough for the commas.
@@Light-vu6ws Messy grammar. And blatantly confusing, so I doubt it.
家
家
Pork crisis: more dangerous than Hong Kong protests
Coronavirus pandemic: I’m about to end this man’s whole career.
In Canada, if you dare touch someone's maple syrup and not say sorry it's the only time we aren't nice.
So strange, looking at this now. When all we had to worry about, or thought we had to worry, is some sick pigs.
the pigs have rfid and 5g is killing the pigs search deep
COVID-19: (looks at African Swine Fever)
COVID-19: can i copy you're work
African Swine Fever: yeah but don't make it obvious
This video makes me sad. So many pigs have died and are dying constantly. The entire world is filled with blood and murder every second ☹
Yes that's really sad 😔😔😔😔
6:04 - I wonder what kind of 'strategic reserves' Russia has... I bet it must have strategic reserves of vodka.
Russian economy depends heavily on oil and natural gas. I imagine it would be one of those. (Besides vodka, ofc).
@@ras573 Well, that may be. But still, if everything else fails, at least they have vodka. ;p This is probably what they could let go as the very last thing.
Shadow Msh Gas, oil, diamonds, gold and the mega riches untapped potential n Siberia.
@@fauxmanchu8094 Like what is there in Siberia? And if the region's so rich why does it remain 'untapped'?
Oh my god they have a food pagoda instead of a food pyramid, if somebody had just made that up everyone would say that was a lazy joke
Australia has a strategic beer reserve !
Hey PolyMatter can you make a video of human trafficking in Albania
To busy with economics and china
The what
Or Mercedes trafficking to albania
"No one expects China to suddenly become the leader in artificially grown mean"
China: Hold my pork...
2030: "China is now the leader of artificially grown meat"
for real
Interestingly the food shortage led to the wet markets where COVID came from.
On this edition of Polymatter China 🐖
4:19 *above**
i started laughting cuz i thought you meant 4:20 is above 4:19
As a Canadian I am absolutely delightef to know we have a maple syrup reserve in case of emergency. The zombies might come but we'll still have our waffles damnit
What about dog?
I heard they also eat strreet dogs.
Chinese will eat anything. One of the most disgusting photos I ever saw was a Chinese woman squatting by a cooking pot in which she was boiling a puppy. A couple of kids were squatting in the background watching her. I almost puked.
Dog-eating is a very regional thing in China. It's a tradition for only a small number of people living in certain areas. And the dog meat they consume is usually from dogs specially bred for meat. Many Chinese people who do not eat dogs do consider this practice disgusting, but imo it's just culture, and dog isn't really superior to other animals like cattle or sheep.
However, I heard it is true that some street dogs might be captured and eaten, but that doesn't seem to be a common practice.
Dogs are eaten in Nagaland too.
as someone who can speak chinese his pronunciation breaks my ears
The us also has a strategic chicken reserve, but the purpose is more for egg supply than chicken supply
It's a virus -- he finally tells us aroung 4:30.
Is this why the Wuhan folks started eating civet cats, pangolins and bats?
no ... but it doesnt help does it ? the CCP encouraged the people to eat wild meat in earlier decades of near starvation
Lol, you sound like a self hating Chinese
just store 2 pigs in an obsidian house, spam carrots and ez pork
From Canada I can confirm that there are maple syrup storages🇨🇦🇨🇦
Any agricultural product that can be stored will maintain a reserve to stabilize market prices. Without reserves, prices would fluctuate wild with seasonal production. The syrup reserve is from Quebec syrup producers and is not government run.
Previously why I'm a vegetarian really people pigs are so cute leave them alone to enjoy their lives
ahh without people artificially raising them millions and millions of pigs would have never existed.
You really haven't seen them in the wild haven't you?
How do you know
@@riversandtrees you and senk crack me up. we are over 7billion people. where do you think all those hamburgers come from?
we thought everybody knew we have ranchers who raise huge herds so we can all eat. no ranchers and 98% of all livestock animals would not exist. if you ban meat you would kill billions of innocent animals that would never get to live at all.
Oh that's right humans are the real beasts
Oh god, I just realized when this video was released...
Srbija!! 3:15
Hot take: Increased pork prices led people to buy more "non traditional meat" especially in poorer centres of China. Wonder if some certain infected bats never would have made it on the menu otherwise......
Don’t stop spreading knowledge, bravo 👏
a government whose power hinges on its ability to raise the standard of living => every single government
Choi Btc not really
In the west, mantaining or slightly improving conditions can keep one in power. In dictatorships, no one cares about your living conditions. In china however, raising living standards are what keeps its government in power
suspiciously similar to the mandate of heaven. Some things don't change.
@@appa609 what
Not everywhere. In India, it depends upon how much the govt. can avoid real issues and keep the Hindus and Muslims always at each others' throat. This is why India is still such a big shithole.
"New! Row!" "Yuh! Row!" lmao
Could have surprised me, I thought 2019 was the year of the bat.
"China's Authoritarian Model has led to miraculously rapid technological progress."
...
*Organ harvesting intensifies*
PolyMatter is such a disgusting CCP shill.
“Isn’t dangerous to humans”
Me: .....yet.
Niu is actually pronounced like the english word "new" while fish sounds like "yea" in the english word yeast. You nailed the pork and home in chinese 😃
Not to be confused with China's president.
Polymatter’s China videos are becoming increasingly objective, informative, and accurate. I wish the western media can learn a bit from you. Good work.
Xianjiang
Chinese farmers used to raise a limited number of pigs. This was mainly because they could only have a certain amount of feed for them. In my mother's youth, she used to find and harvest some herb-like plants for the one or two pigs her family was raising. Raising more pigs was not possible due to limited feed for them. And they could enjoy fresh pork during the CNY, and during the other days of the year, they ate salted pork, and of course, not often.