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Uh-Oh, Experts Warn of Looming Bacon Shortage
Southern Living via Yahoo ^ | 10/11/19 | Meghan Overdeep

Posted on 10/13/2019 5:37:08 PM PDT by Libloather

Bad news bacon lovers.

Virginia-based Smithfield Foods Inc., the world’s biggest pork producer, is warning that an outbreak of African swine fever wiping out hog farms in China could result in a stateside shortage of pig belly and even ham next year.

Though the crisis hasn’t impacted the U.S. market yet, that that could change as China is forced to increase imports to satisfy demand in 2020, Bloomberg reports.

The Chinese “are insatiable in their appetite for pork,” Arnold Silver, director of raw materials procurement at Smithfield, said at the Urner Barry Global Protein Summit in Chicago earlier this week.

Prior to the start of the epidemic a year ago, the Asian country a veritable superpower of pork. Experts estimate that by the end of 2019, China's production of pork could be cut in half. "That's roughly 300 million to 350 million pigs lost in China, which is almost a quarter of the world's pork supply," Christine McCracken, a senior analyst at RaboResearch, told NPR. "It's a massive number."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africanswinefever; bacon; baconshortage; chat; china; chinapork; pork; porkshortage; shortage; smithfield
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To: Billthedrill
If we don’t have a strategic bacon reserve by now, why not?

We do. Start trapping all the feral hogs instead of using them for target practice.

41 posted on 10/13/2019 5:59:33 PM PDT by SanchoP
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To: nwrep

Not Guilty!


42 posted on 10/13/2019 6:01:11 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
That'll be a problem if someone in Hollywood wants to make a sequel to Apollo 13 or Animal House.
Rimshot - Ba dum tssshhh

43 posted on 10/13/2019 6:03:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Libloather

I believe Smithfield was bought by the Chinese.


44 posted on 10/13/2019 6:08:36 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Libloather

Higher prices for our hog farmers.......bigger share of the market too.


45 posted on 10/13/2019 6:09:29 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: moovova
".I’m holding out for Impossible Bacon."


46 posted on 10/13/2019 6:09:51 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: virgil
"The price for a pound of bacon is outrageous now."

No kidding. You can buy steak cheaper than bacon. Bacon, eggs, and grits is no longer a poor boy's supper.
 

47 posted on 10/13/2019 6:11:31 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Everything I Needed to Know About Islam I Learned on 9/11)
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To: nwrep

"Heh, pork anal.yst"

48 posted on 10/13/2019 6:13:14 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: pnut22
Bacon freezes well. Stock up.

I usually buy 6 pounds when it goes on sale at Sprouts, for $3.99/lb. I freeze the slices individually, then put them in a freezer bag. Take them out by the slice as needed.

49 posted on 10/13/2019 6:23:01 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: Libloather

At least peoples’ health will improve , imho. If not their disposition.


50 posted on 10/13/2019 6:23:30 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not , born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Billthedrill

I hope I can get another freezer so I can really stock up.

My knees are shaking. If you can’t get enough, you can’t get ‘MORE’’.


51 posted on 10/13/2019 6:29:05 PM PDT by Jackson Brown (Accomplished without a barrier.)
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To: pnut22

“Bacon freezes well. “

It won’t spoil when it’s frozen, but quality still deteriotes. My experience is the fat gets a tad ratty and the thawed slices don’t separate as readily when you pull them apart.


52 posted on 10/13/2019 6:29:30 PM PDT by be-baw
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To: Billthedrill

“strategic bacon reserve”

We do have one. You haven’t heard about it because its size and location are highly classified.


53 posted on 10/13/2019 6:33:43 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: nwrep

“pork analyst”

Talk about feeling like you’re being judged in bed.


54 posted on 10/13/2019 6:35:49 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: Billthedrill

From INSTAPUNDIT

Yoder’s canned bacon

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009Z2LYTU/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl1&tag=insta0c-20&linkId=bbcbf2cac83616a4a19281684a242965

Strategic Bacon Reserve


55 posted on 10/13/2019 6:36:56 PM PDT by njslim
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To: Libloather

War and rumors of war.

It’s that serious...


56 posted on 10/13/2019 6:42:28 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Libloather

My recollection is that Smithfield was purchased by the Chinese several years ago. They own many American businesses.


57 posted on 10/13/2019 6:44:12 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: nwrep

I’ll fund that research


58 posted on 10/13/2019 7:16:05 PM PDT by onona (I'm here to help others)
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To: Billthedrill

There IS a bacon reserve— it’s the States of Iowa #1 and #2 North Carolina. In NC lots of big and small pork producers and LOCAL BACON— “free range” that never get sold to chi-coms hq’d in VA (ie. smithfield). State by State:

In the meantime- on the farm, little piggies for free range in the mobile pens and feed trays— are a hot commodity. Fresh is best.

https://www.pork.org/facts/stats/structure-and-productivity/state-rankings-by-hogs-and-pigs-inventory/


59 posted on 10/13/2019 7:16:53 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Libloather

Good for US Producers


60 posted on 10/13/2019 7:19:19 PM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!me tking public being de)
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