China is over a barrel right now on pigs. They’ve had more than 40% of all the pigs in the country die of pig ebola from the Congo. That’s about 20% of the world production of swine. American pigs are healthy and China desperately needs pork. And why did the UN rename it African Swine Fever? Is that an attempt to make is sound less scarey? It’s the Reston Ebola strain. It kills swine and monkeys, but humans are currently immune, until it crosses over to humans.
China will soon not be able to feed its people and we can charge anything we want for American pork.
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...we can charge anything we want for American pork.
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Pork is still affordable in the US. Bacon, OTOH, is not.
Heard about a year ago on the Clark Howard Show that there is a glut of frozen meat in the US (don’t have a 2nd source). Yet, everything but chicken has gone up considerably.
What happens to domestic prices and the US COL if quantities of pork are exported?