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Start Hoarding Now: A Global Bacon Shortage Is Coming!

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Friday, September 28, 2012 06:46
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Thursday, September 27, 2012 9:59 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...




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The European Union reports that pig herds around the world are “declining at a significant rate.” And this could lead to a serious pork (and most crucially, bacon!) shortage — a problem that Britain’s National Pig Association chairman, Richard Longthorp, now warns is “unavoidable.”

“British supermarkets know they have to raise the price they pay Britain’s pig farmers or risk empty spaces on their shelves next year,” he says in a press release.

Oddly, this shortage isn’t coming on the heels of restaurant chains across the world adding copious amounts of bacon to nearly every dish on their menus. Rather, the issue is economic: the ever-rising prices of pig feed are making the business of pig farming a tougher one to manage.

The NPA has launched a “Save Our Bacon” campaign to convince consumers to purchase local bacon, a show of solidarity to persuade supermarket chains to stock the homegrown meat and pay farmers a higher price.

Sow herds have been shrinking across Europe for the last 12 months. Numbers show that Italian herds are down 13 percent, Sweden 7 percent and Ireland 6 percent. The NPA says that declining herds dropping slaughtering rates by even just 2 percent cause prices to increase 10 percent on store shelves the next year. The association anticipates a 10 percent drop in slaughter rates, potentially doubling the cost for pork across Europe.

The issue isn’t reserved to just Europe. In the U.S., the government has created a pork-buying program to ensure pig farmers don’t go under. Even China has added more pork to its cold storage, an insurance against a potential shortage or spiking prices.

As the pork warning signs start coming, consumers won’t likely notice anything for at least six months, as the higher prices filter through the supply chain. With that delay, expect pork shortages and bacon hoarding to get even more intense over the next few months. There’s never a dull day in the world of bacon. http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/09/26/start-hoarding-now-a-global-bacon-
shortage-is-coming/?iid=nf-article-mostpop1


There goes the Baconburger!

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Thursday, September 27, 2012 11:30 AM

FREMDFIRMA


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Originally posted by Niki2:
As the pork warning signs start coming, consumers won’t likely notice anything for at least six months, as the higher prices filter through the supply chain.


You'd think, but as soon as greedy suppliers and merchants can use that for an EXCUSE, they will, kinda like how an empty pipeline break in podunk village somewhere "justifies" every fuel station in america jacking the price, grrr.


The Aporkalypse is upon us, the end times draw near, woe... WOEEE!
*wailing and gnashing*



-Frem

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Thursday, September 27, 2012 11:38 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


No doubt you're right, Frem. Doesn't bother me, as I haven't eaten bacon or pork in years--I only eat chicken and occasionally hamburger, and only those 'cuz I'm too damned selfish to go full veggie.

Does sound good, tho', thinking about it. And that first picture makes it...hmmmm, wonder if Choey's got any bacon around.... (Jim's "turkey bacon" just wouldn't do!)


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Thursday, September 27, 2012 11:44 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


How about... a nice greasy pork sandwich, served in a dirty ashtray ?

Mmmm!!


Personally, I think we DO consume too many pigs and cows, so any shortage will probably be a good thing.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Friday, September 28, 2012 5:21 AM

RAHLMACLAREN

"Damn yokels, can't even tell a transport ship ain't got no guns on it." - Jayne Cobb


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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:
The Aporkalypse is upon us, the end times draw near, woe... WOEEE!
*wailing and gnashing*



-Frem



I think Aporkalypse rolls off the tongue better.

Porkapolypse sounds like drunkenly trying to pronunciate the name of an ancient Egyptian pig eatin' city.


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Friday, September 28, 2012 6:46 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


I enjoy bacon, occasionally. I used to enjoy a nice juicy steak, too. Prices go up too much, I find myself enjoying them less, and becoming healthier by being priced out of the market.

Bacon prices go up too much, and I'll not be eating bacon. Problem solved.



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