Canadian Bacon Ping!
Posted on 09/26/2012 3:22:44 PM PDT by Squawk 8888
Bacon lovers, take heart. A British trade group's warning that a worldwide shortage of pork and bacon could happen next year is nothing but "hogwash" in Canada, says a national pork exporting group here.
Sparking hysteria among fans of the other white meat, Britain's National Pig Association said a world shortage of pork and bacon "is now unavoidable."
"New data shows the European Union pig herd is declining at a significant rate, and this is a trend that is being mirrored around the world," the release says. "Pig farmers have been plunged into loss by high pig-feed costs, caused by the global failure of maize and soya harvests."
The association believes that the number of pigs slaughtered in the second half of next year could fall by as much as 10%.
"I think that's hogwash," Rosemary Smart, international marketing programs co-ordinator for the Canadian Swine Exporters Association (CSEA) told QMI Agency. "In Canada it's not an issue at all. We export a lot more meat than we can consume. If our (Canadian) consumer wants to eat pork we have a supply in Canada."
A severe drought in the U.S. has ravaged crops, sending the price of grain soaring and edging hog farmers in North America into losses.
Big Sky Farms, Canada's second-biggest hog farm operation based in Saskatchewan, went into receivership earlier this month, and Puratone, a Manitoba-based major hog farmer, received protection from creditors two weeks ago.
But Smart said such fluctuations won't hit our sausage supply in Canada very much.
"Although some producers have gone out of business, the industry (in Canada) is not shutting down, that's for sure," she said.
"A lot of companies are expanding because the industry is good and some of the weaker ones have dropped out so there is a balancing there."
Maple Leaf Foods, the second-largest processor of pork in Canada, says that although it expects hog supplies to shrink in 2013, the decrease in numbers should be modest.
"Obviously, the challenge that we currently face is producers are exiting the business," Jason Manness, director of procurement at Maple Leaf Foods, told Reuters this month. "We expect less hogs in 2013, but only marginally lower at this point in time."
- with files from Tara Bowie and Canadian Swine Exporters Association (CSEA) located in Woodstock.
Canadian Bacon Ping!
If only Islam would give up THEIR share of the world bacon supply, all this talk of shortage would go away.
That’s it, they are the ones who have been buying up all the world’s supply and hogging it for themselves.
It’s the Muslim War on Pork.
I pay $6-7 per pound, but my local producers have my weekly order in.
Thank god that Canada has saved our bacon. Bacon, the magical food group. Everything that bacon touches will only make it better!
I would think that with a ham shortage, we’d see organized hunting of feral hogs to meet demand.
I remember maybe a year or two ago, both bacon and eggs went way up. They have both come back down but I have no idea what caused it and don’t recall reading anything at the time about their even having gone up in price.
I guess bacon might be on the way up again.
And we’re supposed to believe the people who try to pass off thin sliced ham as bacon?
collect all the remaining bacon and throw it on iran, egypt, and saudi arabia in thanks for all their aggressive tinpot dictatorships are doing for the world.
“I would think that with a ham shortage, we’d see organized hunting of feral hogs to meet demand.”
I’ve never hunted democrats and ate them. How do they taste?
First they walk out on Imanutjob and now they offer us Canadian bacon - what’s not to love?
Liberal Dems are mostly pigs. Should be enough of them to make up the difference. Only problem I see is them all smelling like chitterlings.
Bacon must be what Israel is going to use on Iran. They have been secretly buying mass quantities apparently.
Taste fine.but smell like chitterlings.
Canada is saving our bacon!
Speaking of bacon and Canada check this out.
http://republicofbacon.com/2011/01/24/use-a-machine-gun-to-cook-your-bacon/
chickens? lol
The price will increase to the point where farmers will be able to make a living doing it.
That is how it works. Hopefully.
If not, we eat the liberals.
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