I agree withRobert entirely. Openly criticizing his records on pig keeping and being sarcastic is wrong.
If you are so blasé about why the Chinese are getting rid of there Meishans, surely you're on a fools errand. Novelty will make you money for a few years and then all of a sudden there will be no buyers. Wading into a smallholders forum is probably not the place to start for a farming revolution: many on here are passionate about rare breeds and the conservation of them as you sort of are (breeding your own rare breeds for 10years) and sort of the antithesis of. The Meishan only threatens our heritage and our way of farming by dilution.
You may know the growth rate (even if you don't have them- stats and figures are all well and good but practicality of these figures are more often than not cods wallop,) but as I have done research on the breed the breed it is re-known for it's breeding prowess but very little else- in fact they have been steadily decreasing in popularity in the USA because they are so fat and are so slow growing. The commercial boys out cross with Landrace and other commercail breeds to form the Meidam which is frighfully fast growing with massive litters, this however isn't what your project seems to be doing. Introducing a breed for "the hell of it" just seems wrong as the breed is in no threat of extinction or any other threatening circumstance.
If your going to have any popularity, slamming people on personnel grounds on the internet is not the thing to do. Slinging mud isn't the answer.
On you point about they are meat pigs and then the posted photo of the meat- it isn't marbled, it's fat, glowing fat. I'm all for, fatter meat than the supermarket stuff but I like to have something red. It is laughable.
The Meishan is a novelty breed and will inhabit a similar role to that of the Pot Belly Pig unless you want to start a vast breeding scheme or have someone willing to do it with your two sows
And anyway it's already been done.
If it was to the benefit of the breed as in it was at risk of dieing out, or had something to add to british farming then I'd be all for it. Unfortunetly it fulfills neither.
I wasn't going to post anything but when you answer logical questions and worries with utter balls, you sort of get what you've just read.
I don't mind if I get barred for my closing statement:
I would normally wish you the best of luck but instead I hope it fails miserably