Pig overcrowding. This overcrowding was caused by the ban on transporting pigs (Sus scrofa domestica) during the dioxin crisis. This crisis occurred i

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Pig overcrowding. This overcrowding was caused by the ban on transporting pigs (Sus scrofa domestica) during the dioxin crisis. This crisis occurred in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany, in 2006, when pig feed was found to have been contaminated with dioxin, a carcinogenic chemical.

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