[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SilentRunning', 'H')uman beings will innovate and produce new ways to make more bacon by other means.

[SilentRunning]

There you go. Just like we declare "Other Liquids" to be oil so that we can deny peak-oil, we will inject cardboard with synthetic bacon flavor and declare it to be "bacon style strips". Voila! Bacon shortage averted. There is no food crisis, all is well. Move along, nothing to see here....

[basil_hayden]

Soylent Bacon is People!

[dinopello]

Nugent has been stockpiling pigs for the coming Aporkalypse

[Beery1]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ferretlover', '&')quot;Oh, no!" ~Mr Bill:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Bacon shortage worldwide 'unavoidable' UK pig group says
By Cindy Perman, CNBC.com
...Less feed led to herds declining across the European Union "at a significant rate," according to the National Pig Association in Britain.
...The surge came as farmers scaled down their herds as feeding the animals became increasingly expensive.

[Beery1]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Beery1', 'A') group of pigs is called a 'drift of pigs' or a 'drove of pigs', not a herd. Swine can be either 'drift', 'doylt', or 'trip'. A group of hogs is a 'parcel'.

[autonomous]

The peak bacon deniers are at it again, once again applying their economic theories:

'Bacon shortage' is a fat load of bull
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')hortages only occur when the government fixes prices and consumers want more supply than exists. That results in rationing. There's zero evidence to suggest the government would do that, or that there would be any “runs on the pork bank.”
“As long as prices roam free, there's never a shortage or a glut,” said Bob Brown, an independent meat market analyst in Edmonton, Okla. “It will find a way to clear the market.”

"British supermarkets know they have to raise the price they pay Britain's pig farmers or risk empty spaces on their shelves next year," said NPA chairman Richard Longthorp in the press release. "But competition is so fierce in the high street at present, each is waiting for the other to move first."
Get it? This is an attempt by British pig producers to build grassroots support among British shoppers to apply pressure to supermarkets. Their tool for propping up prices is fear, wrapped in bacon, wrapped in the Union Jack. It's pork propaganda.

[Pops]

I thought this was going to be about the disappointment when the Bakken turns out to be just a sow's ear.

[jupiters_release]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'I') wonder if one can make good bacon from wild hogs. Got plenty of those running around ripping up the ground.

[dolanbaker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('autonomous', 'T')he peak bacon deniers are at it again, once again applying their economic theories:
'Bacon shortage' is a fat load of bull
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')hortages only occur when the government fixes prices and consumers want more supply than exists. That results in rationing. ... This is an attempt by British pig producers to build grassroots support among British shoppers to apply pressure to supermarkets. Their tool for propping up prices is fear, wrapped in bacon, wrapped in the Union Jack. It's pork propaganda.

[Scottie]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jupiters_release', 'I') had wild hog chops from Texas here in a California restaurant. They were delicious! If there were any real restaurants in Texas, they would've already eradicated the wild hog problem in their own state.

[FoxV]

Hey everyone, I'm back after a long lurking hiatus (and probably won't be on very much, I'm suffering from "long emergency" burn out )

Anyways, had to look into this more because, being Canadian, bacon is a staple :D . So where does ethanol and bio-fuel production fit into this picture?

Here in the Great White North State, we now have Government mandated 5% - 15% ethanol in all our Gasoline. Which is total insanity, Canada may be an oil exporter, but we're a Gasoline and Corn importer, and now ethanol. Good thing we live in such a plentiful country, because our Government has no resource management skills.

So this comes back to my long ago meme; "Food or Fuel, pick one" Is this the beginning fallout of wide spread bio-fuel use? Even with the drought, would we have a corn shortage if we weren't producing ethanol?

Oh and I love the way this is wrapped as a "bacon shortage" when really its a much more fundamental and serious cereal crop shortage.
First World Problem:
"My club sandwich sucks when its made with Facon"
Third World Problem:
"Some fat white guy just took my last piece of bread and fed it to a pig"

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('basil_hayden', 'S')oylent Bacon is People!

[Rod_Cloutier]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')o bacon drippings count as "other liquids"?

[ColossalContrarian]

Good morning everyone. I'm having bacon and eggs for breakfast!

Don't worry, I'm saving the grease to convert to biofuel!

It's football Sunday too and I'll be cooking some corn on the bbq!

[Lore]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ColossalContrarian', 'G')ood morning everyone. I'm having bacon and eggs for breakfast!

Don't worry, I'm saving the grease to convert to biofuel!

It's football Sunday too and I'll be cooking some corn on the bbq!

[vtsnowedin]

Notice that no one is talking about or worried over any approching tofu shortage.

[Lore]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vtsnowedin', 'N')otice that no one is talking about or worried over any approching tofu shortage.