The events of 1999 may have provided a foretaste: After an outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease, piglets abandoned by operators roamed the back streets, local farmers suffered severe losses, and a number of animal feed factories went out of business.
猶記得一九九九年，口蹄疫情流行的時候，萬丹鄉間的小路上，到處流落著農家棄養的小豬，農民損失慘重，甚至鄉內飼料廠也受到拖累而有多家倒閉。