| Author | Message | ||
     Pkforbes87 |
http://www.wired.com/business/2012/09/save-your-ba con-shortage-on-the-way/ | ||
| Cyclonedon |
Eat more chicken!  | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
I think McD's & BK may be stockpiling to corner the market. http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/food/stew/l a-fi-mo-five-guys-burger-mcdonalds-20120918,0,3554 990.story | ||
| Danger_dave |
http://www.ilovebacon.com | ||
| Geedee |
"...U.S. pig farmers were losing $30.88 per head due to rising feed prices." Feed them fruit loops. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-19627 592 Blame the muslims. | ||
| Cowboy |
Wild hogs are in good supply in my area and I have a very nice smoke house I dont see any proplem in my fuure other than having to shoot a few thives. | ||
| Jaimec |
I blame Obama. Hell, if (as Rush says) he can send Hurricanes into Florida, then causing a drought in the heartland is child's play. I'm sure it's a secret Muslim ritual he performs in the inner bowels of the White House. In fact, I'm sure I saw a report on this on Fox News just the other day!! | ||
| Glitch |
Right on Cowboy! No shortages here either. | ||
| Aesquire |
Funny, I blame The Greenies, AND Obama. The price of feed is up because we are burning food in our cars and bikes. ( see food to fuel thread ) Corn WAS the #1 feed for cows, chickens and pigs. The price of feed is also up because the price of energy is up. Diesel is up. ( what the frack do you think tractors, trucks and generators run on? Moonbeams and Unicorn farts? Only In Obama's head. ) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19688358 Wild hogs, deer, squirrel, are ok alternate sources for protein for the Rural guy, ( haven't seen a lot of hogs locally, but we got deer up the a$$. Ask the body shops ) But the Urban dweller is stuck with the market, or the Ted Turner solution. ( not legal in NY, I suspect ) This trend has already led to food riots worldwide, helped lead to regime change in Egypt, which we can also blame Obama for, directly. Jaimec, Haven't listened to Rush in years, I assume he still blames everything on Dems and Liberals. Just as Chris Mathews blames everything on Reps and Conservatives. ( here's a hint, they are both right! but sadly, Rush is right-er. How much does that suck? ) | ||
| Buellinachinashop |
I'm stockpiling up cans of BaconBits. I will have my bacon, one way or another. | ||
| Aesquire |
Correction, many farmers now run generators on the methane from herd manure, and bio waste just like "Mad Max, Beyond Thunderdome". Smaller systems to turn food waste into cooking gas are going up in the third world where a few western entrepreneurs with a taste for technological charity are teaching people to build them. Good technology for those too poor to believe places. ( the majority of the planet. ) http://www.takamotobiogas.com/ http://www.pakenergysolution.com/p/products_08.htm l All that is Conservationist and technological is not bad. Centralized authority deliberately raising the prices of food and energy to exert more control over the masses, is. http://www.cookatease.com/biogas-biodiesel-from-ki tchen-food-waste Government must make it compulsory to set up biogas plants to recycle food waste/kitchen waste in all cities and towns (like compulsory rain water harvesting arrangement in Tamil Nadu). So easy to slip from good idea, to mandatory police state to enforce your toilet habits, isn't it? | ||
| Rick_a |
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| Jaimec |
My conservative friend on Facebook pointed out the REAL reason for the bacon shortage: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/25-things-that-hel ped-create-the-world-bacon-shortage/ It's all the fault of that bastard Harvey!! | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/406 2/689913.html?1344783869 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2182719/Sa ve-bacon-British-pig-farmers-say-rising-cost-feed- forcing-business.html | ||
| Jaimec |
http://news.yahoo.com/aporkalypse-not-now-bacon-sh ortage-exaggerated-experts-160739385.html | ||
| Jaimec |
As long as I can buy those wonderful little cans of Spam, I'm good. | ||
| Kenm123t |
ROFL Jaimec Stereotyping your self LOL We can trail Jamie by the spam cans and Court by the bbq stained roads. I forget the Okra Guys lol EBR guys by the fried Cheese curd wrappers | ||
| 86129squids |
Is bacon the ONLY thing to be concerned about? The pig is one of the few, maybe only, animals who are 100% edible (according to Bourdain)- are my pork roasts, chops, even chicharrones going up in price? Are we about to go after Iran or Syria with bacon bombs?! Crazy as it may seem, a messy pork explosion where we want it might help. | ||
| Jaimec |
Mmmmm... Spam and Okra casserole!! | ||
| Aesquire |
That casserole, delivered from high altitude, from a stealth plane, may be just the weapon we need! Yes all Pork Products will go up in price. It's agriculture, agriculture depends on energy, energy is deliberately expensive. Farmers and the transport system have no choice but to cut jobs and raise prices. It just costs more to get a pound of pork to market. ( or beef, or bread.... ) Seriously, either the price goes up or the supply drops off. Then the price goes up. You have to recall there is a time lag here. You have to take little pigs and make big pigs out of them, or no bacon. That takes about 6 months, birth to market. You also have to have a ready supply of little pigs. When you get rid of the herd to cut your losses, you have no more little pigs. You'd have to buy some to restart production. Depending on how much pig farming is cut back, recovery could be 1 to 5 years. The math is well known for populations of livestock. Odd part too, is the price the farmer can get goes down when the market floods with pigs from going out of business sales. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/13/pink-slim e-abc-news-lawsuit-defamation_n_1880709.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime Sometimes I think you really don't want to know how food is made. | ||
| Daves |
Might have something to do with the drought in most of the mid west this year. Here in Iowa they are already picking what corn there is. Getting about 1/2 the normal yield. | ||
| No_rice |
Might have something to do with the drought in most of the mid west this year. Here in Iowa they are already picking what corn there is. Getting about 1/2 the normal yield. yep, and they are what... a solid 2 if not almost 3 weeks ahead of normal harvest this year, trying to get what there is out before there is none. | ||
| Cowboy |
I just finished supper of the best smoked sausage ever 50/50 deer and wild pig. man life is good | ||
| Aesquire |
My grandpa's Deer and Pork sausage was primo. ( Professional butcher ) It's a nigh perfect combo. Perfect for Chili. Multiple factors in the farm business. Weather, etc. you have to be 2 years ahead on weather estimates and planning since many crops the seed you plant is to get the seed for next year. The Green Revolution in agriculture is what has fed this planet since the population grew beyond old school organic farming. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution Yes there are still famines in remote dictatorships, where the country is a war and the glorious leaders steal the foreign aid, or restrict it from the domestic enemy. That's more distribution than capacity to feed people. We've been amazing at that for years. I don't expect a single bad season to be that big a deal. Higher prices on a lot of stuff, sure, that's how it works. We'll just eat more okra and less steak. The problem is the other, political/religious factors with the Greenie movement. Between high energy costs and the propaganda efforts against business, meat, and wealth, this may approach a perfect storm where we go back to periodic famines. ( basically the bad old days early 20th century back to the Big Bang. ) Rather avoid that. Not worrying about it too much.... I'm a slow burn metabolism guy. Either the last left when you all starve, or the first one eaten. | ||
| Jaimec |
What're you trying to do? Kill my investment in Pfizer?? |
