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Savor your bacon. There’s a pork shortage predicted.
Published: 9/25/2012 6:00 PM
Last Modified: 9/25/2012 6:02 PM

An industry trade group is warning of “a world shortage of pork” due to drought conditions that destroyed corn and soybean crops this year.

Less feed led to herds declining across the European Union “at a significant rate,” according to the National Pig Association in Britain.

In U.S. warehouses, the pork supply soared to a record last month, rising 31% at the end of August from a year earlier, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The surge came as farmers scaled down their herds when feeding them became increasingly expensive.

And this shortage comes just as bacon seems to be making its way into all the food groups, both savory and sweet. There is hardly a food that doesn’t have a bacon manifestation anymore, is there?

Bacon cupcakes. Bacon fudge. Bacon shakes.

The demand certainly is high for bacon.

Perhaps, a shortage might turn the tide on that trend.

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Supermommy (5 months ago)

Nooooooo! Say it ain't so!!!!

DomoArrigato (5 months ago)

I guess I will make some room in the freezer for some pork chops, and some sausage links....enough to carry me for the next 14 months or so.

Loophole (5 months ago)

Corn would not be so expensive if a large percentage of the crop wasn't sacrificed to ethanol to cut our gas mileage, corrode fuel systems, etc.

billw001 (5 months ago)

@Loophole
Don't forget about the Government paying farmers to NOT grow any as well.....

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