Muslim plot or Bush’s fault?
I see an opportunity to kill the Ethanol subsidy.
People are not going to be happy paying 50% more for food.
When huge numbers of the voting populace are unhappy there is an opportunity to educate them as to the stupid things there government is doing that make there lives miserable.
If we can get it in the press how much the Ethanol Subsidy is cost them the people will make Congress uncomfortable and maybe the Ethanol Subsidy will vaporize.
Sounds to me like a lot more people are going to raise their own.
neighbors will band together feeding several hogs that will be then slaughtered, and that same band of people will then share the ham.
The cities may starve of pork, Moslem controlled areas of the food industry will sabotage pork production, but the heartland of America will never ever lose its pork.
Even staunchest dems will get cranky and vote with their stomach when they can’t get bacon.”
Makes the muzzies and vegans happy though.
I have my doubts about any “shortage.”
Too many small and medium size producers with investments in hog factories. Gotta run animals through them to pay back the investment.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I don’t eat pork or pork products. It’s not a religious thing; pork just upsets my stomach. The effects need not be discussed in polite company. I can no longer afford beef or lamb. Fish is mostly unaffordable these days as well. I like chicken well enough but it can get boring.
Of course I’m sitting here on six acres of meadow way out in the woods. Lots of ducks are on the pond across the road, deer and turkeys walk through every day and there’s a Mossberg 835 not ten feet away.
Hmmm...
Gee could it be that part of the problem is that 40% of our drought ravaged corn crop will be converted into worthless ethanol?
That one’s easy. Obama’s increasing reliance and push for ethanol laced gas and his refusal to stop caused feed prices to go up so high farmers slaughtered their herds instead.
http://reason.com/blog/2012/08/15/will-nothing-slay-the-ethanol-dragon
"Obama could solve this problem instantly by suspending the federal ethanol mandate -- something his EPA actually can do unilaterally and legally. Instead, Obama will buy up meat -- a move that meat producers say won't help them much anyway. "It doesn't solve the problem of having enough affordable corn next summer," industry analyst Steve Meyer told Reuters. "Without changing the ethanol program, nothing can be done," he said."
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Why does it have to be corn that is fed to pigs? How about slop which is basically food scraps mixed with milk. Andrew Zimmern did a show about Las Vegas and featured a hog rancher who got free food scrap left over from the Las Vegas buffets. He boiled up the scrap and then fed them to the hogs who were later slaughtered and sent back as ham, bacon, and ribs to the same Las Vegas buffets where he got his food scrap. An endless cycle.