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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on September 25, 2012, 12:51:23 PM
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It's seven paragraphs, so I'll quote four.
Global bacon shortage "unavoidable," group says
September 25, 2012 10:50 AM
By Alex Sundby
(CBS News) BLTs next year might have to forego the B, according to a British trade group.
Britain's National Pig Association, "the voice of the British pig industry," warned recently that a global shortage of bacon and pork "is now unavoidable" because of shrinking herds.
The trade group reported Thursday that annual pig production for Europe's main pig producers fell across the board between 2011 and 2012, a trend that "is being mirrored around the world." The group tied the decline to increased feed costs, an effect of poor harvests for corn and soybeans.
Even though the pig association issued its dire prediction as part of a campaign to get British supermarkets to pay pig farmers more for their products, the possibility of a pork shortage received plenty of coverage in American news outlets.
The 'National Pig Association" . . . ain't that another way of saying "Frenchmen" by the British? :tongue:
The rest of the story is here: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57519703/global-bacon-shortage-unavoidable-group-says/
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Bacon shortage! The world really is coming to an end!
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Those damn liberals. They can all burn in hell!
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Bacon shortage! The world really is coming to an end!
You watch; the last scraps of it will disappear, come December 21st.
Well played, Mayans. :cheers1:
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No, Muslims don't like bacon and they have done this! :rant:
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The Brit Pig farms need to get with the times. Pig farms in the states can produce a 300Ib butcher ready pig in as little as 6 months.
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campaign to get British supermarkets to pay pig farmers more for their products
So, what happened to "competition". (http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r192/Bucks_photo/scratchhead.gif).
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The Brit Pig farms need to get with the times. Pig farms in the states can produce a 300Ib butcher ready pig in as little as 6 months.
Better bacon through chemistry?
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Better bacon through chemistry?
Some vitamins but it's mainly about environmental controls and lodging.
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Some vitamins but it's mainly about environmental controls and lodging.
When I was told what a few degrees in temperature meant in the hog barns, I couldn't believe it. 88 degrees and they're up grunting, moving and burning up calories(fat/meat). 91 degrees and they're laying around sleeping and putting on weight.
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When I was told what a few degrees in temperature meant in the hog barns, I couldn't believe it. 88 degrees and they're up grunting, moving and burning up calories(fat/meat). 91 degrees and they're laying around sleeping and putting on weight.
So global warming = more bacon?
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I live in Iowa, the biggest pork producing state in the nation.
Y'all aint getting any bacon till we get ours. so nyah.
Besides these are whiny baby Europeans. This is likely an EU problem.
Mannnly Americans will never go without. With the exception of Michelle's lunches for girly-boys.
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I live in Iowa, the biggest pork producing state in the nation.
Y'all aint getting any bacon till we get ours. so nyah.
Besides these are whiny baby Europeans. This is likely an EU problem.
Mannnly Americans will never go without. With the exception of Michelle's lunches for girly-boys.
North Carolina has some of the biggest Hogs I have ever seen, head down RT.13 from VA Beach and get lost-------drive the side roads past farms and you will see these huge pens with hogs the size of a small milk cow lazing about as the farmers turn on the water sprinklers to cool them down in very hot temperatures. Each Hog in a separate pen on concrete.
Stopped one day to get directions back to the highway and the farmer and wife seeing I was fascinated by the size of the brutes gave us a tour of their operation. Amazing the low tech operations they ran, coupled with a few high tech computers. None of with anything more high tech then my cheapo HP.
Now I do not know if the farmer was messing with us Yankees but he said in that neck of the woods the farmers brought the hogs to slaughter at night when it was cool and dark to kept them calm. According to him, if the Hogs are over excited Adrenalin goes through the body and [turns] the meat. Smithfield up the road in VA. only picked up the hogs slaughtered at night, some of the other company's would pick up at any time day or night. The reason why some pork products smell off to the buyer.
Fear not, if bacon has a shortage the people in the south west over run by the wild Hogs will soon have their problem solved.
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Fear not, if bacon has a shortage the people in the south west over run by the wild Hogs will soon have their problem solved.
We've got wild pigs are in the Adirondacks now.
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I think we are good for bacon down here for a while.... :-)
http://www.bradenton.com/2012/09/26/4215705/in-texas-feral-hogs-are-winning.html
FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas upped the ante in its battle with feral hogs a year ago when it passed a "pork choppers" law that allows recreational shooters to blast wild pigs from low-flying helicopters. The state doesn't track the number of hogs killed by aerial gunners, but a new report from the Texas AgriLife Extension Service clearly shows the prolific pigs are winning the war.
As in all conflicts, there is money to be made.Some helicopter companies say business is better than they ever imagined for shoots that cost from $1,500 to $2,000.On the ground, a growing number of trappers, landowners and wholesalers are cashing in on all that free-roaming protein by selling trapped hogs to meat-processing plants..
Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2012/09/26/4215705/in-texas-feral-hogs-are-winning.html#storylink=cpy
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Plot by bunnies.
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Plot by bunnies.
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We've got wild pigs are in the Adirondacks now.
Hope you have open season and a bounty on these critters. A farmed hog is dangerous, I got chased through a field to put tack on a horse as a kid, this farmed male wanted the leather I was told.
Wild hogs that in 2 generations grow those tusks that DE gut the best hunting dogs and can give a hunter gangrene if they slice into them are worse then being attacked by a bear. Far as I know I have no idea what bear spray will do to an angry boar.
Do any hunters out there know if bear spray will stop these slicing and dicing machines ???????
Just saw your post IF, Darn if Texas has not got a problem on its hands. These machines from hell can eat most anything and the more food they have the larger the litters from the sow. So far in Texas are the Hogs still solitary families or are they learning to hunt in packs ??
You said it, these beasts are at times smarter then a dog. Only thing I can think of is to get Madison Ave. to make their hide fashionable, we saw what happend to the alligators in Florida when their hide became a wanted commodity. Took just a few years and the suckers were placed on the endangered list. With the Asian Carp up north, Chiefs are working to find a way to make them a desired dish. Get them to the dinner plate and their numbers will go down rapidly.
Until some liberal and Peta comes along crying, oh the poor things.
Florida needs to start a program for boot makers to use snake skin, and make vests. There it is right in front of our eyes a business just waiting to be built on using what we want to be rid of.
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Hope you have open season and a bounty on these critters. A farmed hog is dangerous, I got chased through a field to put tack on a horse as a kid, this farmed male wanted the leather I was told.
Wild hogs that in 2 generations grow those tusks that DE gut the best hunting dogs and can give a hunter gangrene if they slice into them are worse then being attacked by a bear. Far as I know I have no idea what bear spray will do to an angry boar.
Do any hunters out there know if bear spray will stop these slicing and dicing machines ???????
Just saw your post IF, Darn if Texas has not got a problem on its hands. These machines from hell can eat most anything and the more food they have the larger the litters from the sow. So far in Texas are the Hogs still solitary families or are they learning to hunt in packs ??
You said it, these beasts are at times smarter then a dog. Only thing I can think of is to get Madison Ave. to make their hide fashionable, we saw what happend to the alligators in Florida when their hide became a wanted commodity. Took just a few years and the suckers were placed on the endangered list. With the Asian Carp up north, Chiefs are working to find a way to make them a desired dish. Get them to the dinner plate and their numbers will go down rapidly.
Until some liberal and Peta comes along crying, oh the poor things.
Florida needs to start a program for boot makers to use snake skin, and make vests. There it is right in front of our eyes a business just waiting to be built on using what we want to be rid of.
NYSDEC wants them dead. A small game license is all that's needed, and there is no season or bag limit. They've been spotted 10 or so miles from the deer camp I hunt at.
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North Carolina has some of the biggest Hogs I have ever seen,
Optical illusion. The big ones were likely raised in Iowa and purchased by jealous NC farmers.
Home grown NC hogs are only about 3 pounds total, and they speak French. The farmers who raise them are all girly boys, who attend all male square dances...wearing dresses. So do the pigs.
All in all its a pretty sad state of affairs in North Carolina Farm country. The State Ag Commishun's motto is, "At least we're not as bad as New Jersey."
Not surprisingly there are a lot of Ptarmigans in NC...
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Sooooooooo adorably cute, Gina.
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I bought two bunnies one time, and I was told they were 2 girl bunnies. WRONG. I had black bunnies running everywhere around my house. They are the cutest things but man can they shit :lmao:
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I heard an update on this story, this morning. There will be enough bacon; it'll just cost more.
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I heard an update on this story, this morning. There will be enough bacon; it'll just cost more.
You mean Bacon is going up in price? just like everything else under Obama? WOW! :o
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You mean Bacon is going up in price? just like everything else under Obama? WOW! :o
Did you expect anything else from the Oconomy? :tongue:
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Optical illusion. The big ones were likely raised in Iowa and purchased by jealous NC farmers.
Home grown NC hogs are only about 3 pounds total, and they speak French. The farmers who raise them are all girly boys, who attend all male square dances...wearing dresses. So do the pigs.
All in all its a pretty sad state of affairs in North Carolina Farm country. The State Ag Commishun's motto is, "At least we're not as bad as New Jersey."
Not surprisingly there are a lot of Ptarmigans in NC...
^5 to you and you are a piece of work Mr. Mannn, haven't laughed out loud in sometime.
We went a few years ago to visit family in a small NC coastal town called Snug Harbor. A good 90 minute ride to Norfork, had to go the road that the Inland Water Way passes, miles of signs about bears and very high chain link fences on both sides of the road covered in bear fur as the suckers tried to climb the fences. Every few miles we would see huge culverts running under the road so the bears could cross from side to side.
Mid way through there is a State Rest Area run by Fish and Game. The water way ran past the Rest Area and people were tying up to the docks for fuel and food. One can get a guided tour but as we were on a very limited budget we went the cheap way and I just sat down at a picknick table a few officers were eating lunch at and found out more then I could have gotten on a paid tour. This was a part of NC I had never been to , I knew the Coast and the Smokey Mountans to the west but this area was all a surprise to me.
Just a few short years ago and it seems as the water temperature was rising this part of the woods was facing and influx of of all things alligators heading North. This seemed to be the problem of the day discussion of the Officers. Reports had come in from 2 counties of people running over gators in the road. Fancy one was killed about 10 miles from VA Beach.
The hog farmers and all kinds of farmers within 5 miles of the water way were panicking over loosing stock to these interlopers.
At no time have I seen a bunch of girlie boys run a farm or on the Coast a fishing business. In the Mountains on the Tenn. border, one does not mess with those family's.
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I bought two bunnies one time, and I was told they were 2 girl bunnies. WRONG. I had black bunnies running everywhere around my house. They are the cutest things but man can they shit :lmao:
I, too, had bunnies at one time, before the cats and dogs came along. They kept dying on me from kidney problems when they were somewhere between 5 and 8. But with the house rabbit proofed and them using the litter boxes it was fun having them around to cuddle with. And, they never stink, unlike my doggies. Had to bathe all the little ones yesterday; not the best fun when they want to shake and spray me with their bath water while still in the tub!
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Mr. Mann and Vesta,
Please do me a favor and leave my state out of this.
Vesta, WTF are you talking about with the gators?
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Over the weekend, the PR guy for Smithfield's was on the news. He said there's plenty, but due to the draught, we might see the price go up 50 cents to a dollar. He gave me such the craving...