The droughts of 2012 have led to higher prices in raw commodities, as TheBlaze reported earlier this year, and now some are saying this will lead to an “unavoidable” global bacon shortage.
Bacon, folks. Bacon.
“Economically, it’s not a good time,” Tim Maiers of the Illinois Pork Producers Association, the fourth largest of its kind in the U.S., tells CBS Illinois.
An increase in the cost of raw commodities has led to increased costs in maintaining herds. As a result, farmers in both the U.S. and Europe have been forced to downsize the size of their herds and cut back on production. This has led to Britain’s National Pig Association, “the voice of the British pig industry,” to issue a statement claiming a shortage of bacon worldwide “is now unavoidable,” CBS News reports.
But … not the bacon!
The British trade group reported last week that production for Europe’s main pig producers declined between 2011 and 2012, a trend that “is being mirrored around the world.” And you know what the group blames this on? You guessed it: an increase in feed costs.
Likewise, the U.S. Department of Agriculture in August claimed that a reduction in pork for 2013 can be blamed on — you guessed it — the Midwest drought. As feed prices continue to rise, we can expect hog producers to cut back on production in order to control costs.
“Considering those factors, the USDA forecasted next year’s pork production at 23 billion pounds, a decrease of about 1.3 percent from this year’s estimated total. That breaks down to Americans consuming slightly more than 45 pounds of pork per capita in 2013, a reduction of more than 1 percent from this year’s estimates,” CBS News reports.
“The decline in production could be worse in Europe. On Wednesday, British Pig Executive Mick Sloyan told European retailers that pork losses could be as high 10 percent in the latter half of 2013, which could double pork prices, according to the U.K. pig association,” the report adds.
If ever there were a time to get serious about global events, now is that time. But you know, there’s still plenty of bacon over at BaconFreak in The Marketplace by The Blaze:
Seriously. It’s a store dedicated to bacon. Do it.
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Comments (106)
Madmilo
Sep. 25, 2012 at 5:12pmHa! I have been perfecting this new product that I call Faken. Its made with pork scrap trimmings and it taste just like bacon. I think my ship has come in.
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banjarmon
Sep. 25, 2012 at 8:43pmDamn…and I was going to send some to Ahmadinejad!!
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banjarmon
Sep. 25, 2012 at 8:45pmP.S. and a plane load to be dropped on Mecca!!
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db321
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:12pmWhat different does it make if there is a shortage of Bacon – We will all be following Mohammed and Sharia Law soon which would forbid us to eat bacon. It’s probably a good thing them.
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Leadthemtothelight
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:53pmTurkey bacon ftw!
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Secret Squirrel
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:57pm.
I hope it’s all being used making ammo in Afghanistan.
I’ll do without if our soldiers are firing 5.56 bacon.
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Fonebone
Sep. 25, 2012 at 11:36pmDamnit man! You should have gotten a patent and trademarked the name before posting a revelation like this in a public forum! Now PETA will do it first and prevent anyone from making it until the patent runs out. Too bad, I liked the idea…
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RWCT
Sep. 26, 2012 at 3:03amYou mean my BLT will become an LT.?? LadanianTomlinson will think he should get a cut from every LT bought in any retaurant!
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OniKaze
Sep. 25, 2012 at 5:11pmNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s official, the end of the world is NEIGH!!!!
Darn-it, that was the only part of the pig, besides its ribs, that I liked… Quick, we need more people to convert over to Judaism so the demand for bacon will go down….
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CatB
Sep. 25, 2012 at 5:13pmIt’s not unavoidable .. quit burning CORN in our cars! DRILL BABY DRILL and we can afford bacon.
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Bum thrower
Sep. 25, 2012 at 6:20pmCheeeeep oil = more corn = more feed = more bacon!!! Problem solved
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RamonPreston
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:43pmYou forgot Nikola Tesla. In the 1930′s he ran a car powered by a 6 foot antenna sticking out the back with no source of fuel. The energy elite doesn’t want you to know about this. Keep you dependant on them while they suck away your money.We need to rediscover Tesla’s secret.
http://www.keelynet.com/energy/teslcar.htm
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LeadNotFollow
Sep. 25, 2012 at 5:10pm…
The drought has nothing to do with this pork “shortage”.
Muslims don’t eat pork. It’s offensive to them. Muslims consider pigs as unclean.
If Obama is re-elected, pork will be banned.
Message to Islam. “Don’t get between Americans and their bacon.”
Muslims also consider dogs as unclean. That’s why they don’t keep dogs as pets.
How long will it be until Americans are forced to give up their beloved pets?
This gets me to thinking, that there may have been evil forces at work, during the dog food melamine contaminations, a few years back. Many dogs died from kidney failure. More dogs were “murdered” than the media dared to admit.
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riseandshine
Sep. 25, 2012 at 6:19pmis are*…..I counted 13 out of 50…You people have Muslim on the brain. Jewish people don’t eat pork either do they?
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banjarmon
Sep. 25, 2012 at 8:52pmriseandshine
The Jews are NOT terrorist and ATTACKING AMERICA The _____muslims ARE!!!
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riseandshine
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:18pm@Banj….There’s a lot I’d love to say on that subject…but I won’t. I’ll just keep it to myself. Pure evil at work the last few decades…pure evil. It’s very sad.
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bustedupvet
Sep. 26, 2012 at 2:26amPigs are cleaner than most muslims I’ve seen
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Milkman
Sep. 25, 2012 at 5:08pmYes, the price of feed- hog production takes corn and soybean meal, has gone up dramatically since mid June when the drought in the midwest began to take hold….. Corn prices increaased from about $ 5.00 /bu up to a peak of about $ 8.50 /bu in Aug and now stand at about $7.50. Meal prices have increased similarly……increasing from about $ 350/ton to over $ 500/ton in early Sept. This has resulted in hog farmers selling hogs to avoid using high priced feed and then sell fattened hogs at a loss….resulting live hog prices have dropped from about $ .6200 /lb. in late June to about $ .5000 /lb. now. Hog farmers’ cost of production is greater than $ .5000 /lb….so they are losing money feeding
$ 7.50 corn to 50 cent hogs
So…… what this all means is simply that supplies of prok bellies from processors may tighten up a bit and prices of bacon will increase…but there WILL NOT be any bare shelves in any grocery stores…so calm down all you bacon scented soap on a rope fans!! My guess is retail prices of a pound of private label bacon in the stores may increase about 10-15%………..
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Homeschoolmama
Sep. 25, 2012 at 5:04pmWasn’t Ted Nuget forced to slaughter all his piglets because they weren’t the right type?!
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jcldwl
Sep. 25, 2012 at 5:10pmHe and several others were forced to kill their livestock of pigs. Can’t remember the exact reason but I am sure Islam had something to do with it.
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CatB
Sep. 25, 2012 at 5:16pmIt WAS in Michigan … You know the state with the largest community of Muslims outside the Middle East …
http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2011/06/nugent_rants_on_feral_swine_ur.html
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graceunderfire
Sep. 25, 2012 at 6:06pmThey were supposedly the wrong type of pig. They can turn feral very easily.
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pissantno.10
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:05pmall pigs can go feral . these pigs were feral they were being raised for hunting purposes much like game birds that are now raised for hunting instead of wild birds.
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perry1980
Sep. 25, 2012 at 5:04pmThis little piggy went to market and got chopped up for Bacon!
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Zipit
Sep. 25, 2012 at 5:56pmAnd this little corn cobb was chopped up and forced into my gas tank, thus rendering, (pun intended) all the little piggies hungry! Headline should read; “Government energy policy leads to bacon shortage”. WTF, drought my rear end!!!!!
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huey6367
Sep. 25, 2012 at 5:03pmI think Moochelle took the bacon. I think saw her munching on a BLT earlier. That would explain the a$$.
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pugczar
Sep. 25, 2012 at 5:01pmI suspect this has less to do with the drought and more to do with the muslim’s ‘sensitivities’.
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CatB
Sep. 25, 2012 at 5:10pmYes .. and wait until you want a holiday ham … btw .. bacon prices have been outragous for quite a while where I live. I can only buy now when it is on a very good sale.
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huey6367
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:55pmWHAT?!?!?!?! No bacon? But everything goes with bacon. I was going home tonight and having bacon encrusted bacon. I guess tonight will be a Spam night.
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Eric_The_Red_State
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:54pmNo wonder other countries hate us
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hauschild
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:52pmWhen it gets down to chicken, then I’m concerned.
Bacon? Maybe when I’m 80 and no longer care what I look like.
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Mr Sanders
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:51pmIts come to the point that ranchers need to be farmers too to keep their livestock from getting lean or keep feed stocks up. Water is another big input. We [Big-G] seems all-a-frenzy to make fuel over food?
“As recently as 2008, the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), a wholly owned subsidiary of the USDA, reported that there was virtually no grain stores left in the US. Of the 24.1 million bushels in reserve, only 2.7 million bushels remained after the bulk of the grain stores were given for humanitarian relief.” Hmm. Humanitarian relief? How’s about giving it to our enemies, oh, I mean, our “friends”?!
Wow – like Glenn said, be praying that Australia can produce enough wheat grain for us all cause we’re sucking wind. The world lives on Pork, Chicken, Beef, fish, Wheat, Corn & Peanuts; one primary food source on the scale dropping weight fast. I hate to think which one will fall next.
If I had the resources… I’d be growing non GMO wheat. Our washington friends in USDA(CCC) prove once again they are not for Americans or America. And a global shortage of bacon/pork maybe just the start?
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13th Imam
Sep. 25, 2012 at 5:00pmAre you Col. Sanders, pig farming brother? MMMMMM, Bacon wrapped chicken
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old white guy
Sep. 26, 2012 at 11:48amlook to the north. canada is probably the biggest grain producer next to america.
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DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:50pmCreeping Sharia…I KNEW Obama was a Muslim!
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RamonPreston
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:47pmDuh! He slipped and admitted he is muslim.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2o2fKbLJc8
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crusaderx9
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:48pmWe have a feral hog problem in the US and people are worried about bacon ’cause they’re too lazy to hunt?
“Give a man a BLT and he eats for a day. Teach a man to hunt and farm and he feeds his family for a lifetime…”
:)
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huey6367
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:56pmTeach a man to hunt and we won’t have a ferral hog problem.
But that would be cruel to the hog, wouldn’t it? Don’t care
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MOLLYPITCHER
Sep. 25, 2012 at 5:05pmWe don’t have a feral hog problem here in Maine, but if we did it would save us the cost of raising our own. Are they that much of a problem that I wouldn’t want them around? And I bet they taste awsome!!!!
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jcldwl
Sep. 25, 2012 at 5:12pmI wish I had a feral hog problem here. I would be hunting them daily.
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22hornet
Sep. 25, 2012 at 8:16pmMolly… Yes they are a problem. Here in Florida the state game officers say to kill every one of them you see and walk away if you don’t want it.
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pissantno.10
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:12pmlot of the southern states are having a big problem with them. they are moving up in to kansas, mo. i have had some in teaxas, but ithink a road killed possum might taste better
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randy
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:44pmI wouldn’t mind a coconut shortage, or eggplant shortage, or even a cous cous shortage, but BACON???? Say it an’t so :) LOL
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circleDwagons
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:57pmwhat will my son eat? he likes his blt’s without the l or t :}
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kalli
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:43pmBlame it on the drought? Nah! The muslim-in-chief signed executive order late Friday night banning pork.
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whatthecrazy
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:54pmI wouldnt dought the dang traitor did just that……………
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MetalPatriot
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:05pmSorry, no order was signed about pork, pigs, etc. Just a “national hunting and fishing day.”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions
Please post a link to what you are talking about.
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2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:38pm“You wanna know how good bacon is? To improve other food, they wrap it in bacon.” “I even like the name Bacon. You can’t tell me the success of Kevin Bacon isn’t somehow tied to his name. You’re not going out to see a Kevin Hot Dog movie. “Who’s in this movie?” “Kevin Bacon.” “Sounds good.” – Jim Gaffigan
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whatthecrazy
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:52pmsilly
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spickard2101
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:37pmDo not tell S.E.!
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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:35pmI have a case of Tac-Bac. Maybe it will outperform my gold on a ROI basis.
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taxpro4u03
Sep. 26, 2012 at 3:32amhm – they paved paradise and put up a parking lot — Hard tack and ‘rancid’ bacon was the lot for the Union Army back in the day…. what they couldn’t FORAGE. Some ‘survived,’ or we wouldn’t be here… Monsanto (think RoundUp herbie-side) – has bastardised thru chemical engineering the seed base of MOST agricultural crops — granny’s still got some grub come from the ORIGINAL source, still spawnin’ good eatin’s an’ corn squeezins — don’t let ‘em fool ya — “Country boys can survive” Vittles don’t come from Wal-Mart Supercenters….. there are a few of us that still know how to use the jawbone of an ass to till the soil and plant a seed, which will feed the chickens … if need be… Commerce Clause be damned… ;-) During Sherman’s March — they ‘destroyed’ the crops, killed the animals — burned the production facilities and VACANT homes — TOTAL WAR — they survived… so will we. Trade ya some ‘baccy fer a few them coffee beans? Tired of drinkin’ chicory and dirt… ;-0
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frogg
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:33pmGuess that this should mae all the rag heads happy
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Dismayed Veteran
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:31pmNoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Gary_K
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:30pmI hear the muslims are secretly eating it all…..it’s a “mo-HAM-ed” order ya know….its in the unholy kor-ham.
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floridareader
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:33pmI was afraid Muslim were killing all the piggies. Or maybe Michelle Obama had order bacon out of our glorious and grease diet.
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Carlinpa
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:29pmSimple , just get Bob Beckle’s but on a slicer and we can feed the world!
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2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:44pmNo thanks, I’m sure he’s full of trichinosis.
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Popp40
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:45pmSpeaking of Beckle, did anyone hear him on The Five yesterday. They were talking about the attack in Benghazi, they were saying that it was a coordinated attack of 100 Alqaeda terrorists, someone asked why there weren’t an increased number of Marines stationed there due to it being 9/11. Well, Bob said that even if there were increased numbers of Marines there that they would not have been able to stop them.
Now I’m not going to lie, I did not serve in the military (which I regret), however, I have many friends that served as Marines and other branches of the military and just hearing their stories, I know they can handle themselves, especially if our government were to let them lose and do what they do best. Well Bob Beckle said our Marines could not handle 100 of these terrorist and they would not be able to stop them. I’m sorry but that was a MAJOR insult. And to add on top of that he had the nerve to be wearing Marine suspenders, which he pointed out was to show respect to them.
So he puts our Marines down saying they couldn’t handle these terrorists and then says he respects them…..I’m surprised no one has picked up on that.
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whatthecrazy
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:48pmeewwwww ill just start that diet i was planning for the last 10yrs……………………
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Kitsune
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:28pmBacon offends Muslims, therefore, the UN must ban Bacon.
And Cuban Sandwiches, since those have both roast pork AND ham.
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taxpro4u03
Sep. 26, 2012 at 3:38amGrow more PEANUTS!!!! An ‘ethnically approved’ root-crop high in PROTEIN… :-) —->http://www.black-inventor.com/George-Washington-Carver.asp
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normbal
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:27pmBacon’s getting so expensive, I can’t afford to throw it over the walls of my local mosque anymore.
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whatthecrazy
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:45pmstop it lolololololol just kiddin too funny
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circleDwagons
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:52pmwould fake bacon work? Or keep the bacon for yourself and just use the grease
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Exrepublisheep
Sep. 25, 2012 at 5:09pmHilarious!
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CatB
Sep. 25, 2012 at 5:12pmLOL .. .you know if we weren’t burning CORN in our gas tanks .. we could afford bacon!
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pissantno.10
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:25pmwell if you dont want the grease send it to me . fried green tomatoes in bacon grease oh ya
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