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Climate change is making pigs skinnier, which could mean more expensive pork
National Post - Canada ^ | September 25, 2018 | by Laura Brehaut

Posted on 09/27/2018 10:48:40 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: samtheman
What do you call a moron with a hyper-active imagination? A climate scientist.

How do you think the unthinkable?

You ram it into an Ithberg.

41 posted on 09/27/2018 11:59:54 AM PDT by Tenacious 1
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To: Wonder Warthog

Uh...it is the additives that contributed to the higher fat content.


42 posted on 09/27/2018 12:02:51 PM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What is wrong with leaner pigs-that pork is delicious and healthy-when it is available, we buy pork from neighbors who specialize in raising healthy, lean pigs-the grocery store in the nearest town also caters to those of us who are healthy food types-grass fed, no growth supplements, lean free range meat-including pigs-I thought we were supposed to eat lean meat because it is healthy-this is just more global warming bullsd***...


43 posted on 09/27/2018 12:12:48 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: WKUHilltopper

Any excuse seems to be acceptable to raise the price of something,much of which is overpriced already. If it’s something we can get along without(I get along OK w/o bacon)then the ploy won’t work.


44 posted on 09/27/2018 1:08:20 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: Texan5

The feral hogs in this area are HUGE. Don’t want to hit them, they’ll destroy your truck (several of my farmer friends will attest to that). They are so numerous, one friend shoots them at night, and got over 30 one night in one of his grain fields. GW not hurting the population explosion.


45 posted on 09/27/2018 1:38:38 PM PDT by TStro (Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6)
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To: G Larry
"Uh...it is the additives that contributed to the higher fat content."

Uh, no. Look at some old pictures of pigs from the early last century and older. Gigantically fat pigs before any "additives" were ever even thought of. Reason is that hog lard was THE majorly-used cooking fat. That ceased to be true when hydrogenated vegetable oils became commercial. To get a fat pig, all you need is food.

I grew up on a farm and actually raised pigs (4H), and studied hog breeds in Vo-Ag (required of all males) in high school.

46 posted on 09/27/2018 1:38:58 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: TStro

Plenty of huge feral hogs out here too-if one of my neighbors shoots one marauding a cornfield or apple orchard, I am fortunate enough to share in some nice, lean smoked pork that I barter some home grown veggies or herbs for-no global warming damage here-a lot of people started raising those small potbellied pigs to sell as pets, so now there are so many of them that they are being butchered and sold as food-they are really delicious...


47 posted on 09/27/2018 1:56:45 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Crazy as a Hearing Room full of democrat senators.


48 posted on 09/27/2018 2:12:49 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats. - P.J. ORourke)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

That’s funny...


49 posted on 09/27/2018 2:46:31 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nonsense.


50 posted on 09/27/2018 2:47:01 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Climate change is making pigs skinnier..."

That's okay, the cows are hulking out so it's a wash:


51 posted on 09/27/2018 2:52:09 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“which could mean more expensive pork”

that’s it ... i’m running out and stocking up on bacon RIGHT NOW!


52 posted on 09/27/2018 3:19:34 PM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: IronJack

Sung to the tune of Bridge On The River Kwai

Hitler had only just one ball
Goering had two, but very small
Himmler had something similar
And Goballs had no balls—at all!


53 posted on 09/27/2018 6:31:05 PM PDT by W. (Boom!)
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