Vietnamese farmers, who suffered from big losses for a long time due to high input costs and low selling prices, cannot hold out anymore. Cheap chicken imports from the US have dealt a final blow, forcing them to give up farming. 

Vietnam’s livestock industry on which the livelihoods of nearly 10 million people depend will most likely be put on the chopping block by the 11 other signatory nations to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade accord.