Thai Feed & Livestock Weekly: Vegetarian festival drags livestock, feed grain prices down (Oct 5-11, 2015)
Livestock prices in Thailand have plummeted in the wake of the Buddhist country's annual vegetarian festival celebration. For nine days (Oct. 11 t0 19 this year), millions of Thais refrained from eating animal meat, including eggs, causing demand for livestock - and, consequently, feed grain -- to plunge