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Crap... this will cause problems. Food riots.

Historical capture recovered from the Wayback Machine · captured 2012-11-10 · 9 posts
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/09/25/industry-group-bacon-pork-shortage-unavoidable/

A world shortage of pork and bacon next year is “now unavoidable,” a British industry group said in a press release.

Britain's National Pig Association (NPA) says that pig herds in Europe are shrinking. As if that isn’t bad enough, this trend is “being mirrored around the world,” the group says in the release. Drought conditions, especially in the U.S. and Russia, have taken a toll on the price of the grain crops used for animal feed, and world food prices are expected to reach record highs in 2013.

The number of slaughtered pigs could drop by as much as 10 percent in the second half of next year, the NPA says. This would double the price of European pork and pork products.

The NPA is advising supermarkets to pay Britain’s pig farmers a fair price to counter the high price of feed or “risk empty spaces on their shelves next year," said NPA chairman Richard Longthorp.

In the United States, CBS Chicago reports that the price of pork belly has increased to $1.40 a pound in August, up from June’s price of 94 cents a pound.


World shortage of BACON!!!!
Say it isn't SO!
I just started eating pork too! Story of my life
Well we can start using Muslims as a bacon substitute. In my experience they smell just like pork when you burn them so it stands to reason they would taste like pork.
Alah be praised.......
I apologize. I have been wrapping every meal in bacon for some time, I guess it is leading to problems. Unfortunately, the only way out of this that I see is the UK is going to have to go without bacon. Sorry. It's not like even wrapping it in bacon will improve your food, anyways.
Shouldnt cause any riots in the ME
Reminds me of a Simpsons episode.

(Paraphrasing)

Kent Brockman: Do you think its time for people to crack each other's heads open and feast upon the gooeyness within?

Unnamed Expert: Why yes I do Kent.
You want the truth. We are building pork bombs to get back at the towel heads for attacking us!!! Obama is cool!!!
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"I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making it easy for them in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it" Ben Franklin
There is a pork shortage cause I've been emptying out all of Costco's pork for my BBQ smoker, sry bros, none for you.

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