Humanity facing GLOBAL BACON SHORTAGE

I was planning on buying an iPhone 5 but now I'll save my money for a pack of bacon, two chops and a sausage.

It's because of GLOBAL WARMING (tm)

the BBC didn't mention the main reason for high corn prices:

"While the drought may have triggered the price spike in corn, an underlying cause is the federal policy mandating ever-increasing amounts corn for fuel. Because of this policy, ethanol production now consumes approximately 40 percent of the U.S. corn crop, and the cost of corn for use in food production has increased by 193 percent since 2005 [the year before the RFS took effect]. Put simply, ethanol policies have created significantly higher corn prices, tighter supplies, and increased volatility."

source: http://www.globalwarming.org/2012/09/10/ethanol-mandate-waiver-decks-stacked-against-petitioners/

so no bacon for you and me, and no supper at all if you're one of the world's real poor folk :-(

Seriously worried

'er in doors keeps calling me a fat pig (when she is being nice - worse when she is not), if she sees profit in slaughter I don't stand a chance....

The alternative Reg expert viewpoint

This is clearly nothing more than scaremongering by an organised lobby seeking to destroy our economies. Everyone knows that bacon availability has fluctuated throughout human history and in fact bacon today is almost certainly less crispy than when the Vikings settled in Greenland. Making projections like this on little more than computer models doesn't take account of Thames frost fairs or the Maunder Minimum and just because the majority of bacon experts are adamant we are heading into a crisis doesn't mean we should continue to change our behaviour. We will always be able to find more bacon so long as we ignore the Green lobby and start fracking for shale bacon.

Worth paying more...

... for quality pork goodness.

The difference in quality between my local butchers bacon and a certain large supermarket chain that starts with T is more than a little noticable.

Even their 'finest' range is no comparison.

Yup, you pay a premium for it already - and why not?

Once you've tried proper, high welfare, free to roam and snuffle up truffles pork based products you'll wonder why you ever settled for less.

The cheap stuff - notice how when you fry it, you get water with horrible specs of white fat - ending up with half the product you purchased = bad economic sense.

Pork eaters of Britain, show solidarity!

Buy the good stuff regardless of how pricey it gets - just eat less of it, or make every scrap count!

Your waistline will thank you.

speaking of octopig...

didn't she just move into a new house?

i'm pig sick of this type of article. sort it out reg!

brick top

And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".

I don't think I'm affected...

...Spke to a mate today who supplies me my pork products- and threre's no difference in the herd size this year than last year and he doesn't see any difference next year. I told him about the corn shortage and he said yeah, that will affect the large producers but not the small. So my bacon is saved.