Worldwide bacon shortage

Nevermind

From Slashdot:

"The economics of the current drought are likely to nose up prices for bacon and other pork products next year, by as much as 10 percent. But U.S. agricultural economists are dismissing reports of a global bacon shortage that lent sizzle to headlines and Twitter feeds last week. Simply put, the talk of scarcity is hogwash. 'Use of the word 'shortage' caused visions of (1970s-style) gasoline lines in a lot of people's heads, and that's not the case,' said Steve Meyer, president of Iowa-based Paragon Economics and a consultant to the National Pork Producers Council and National Pork Board. 'If the definition of shortage is that you can't find it on the shelves, then no, the concern is not valid. If the concern is higher cost for it, then yes.'"
 
How could anyone think our Congresscritters would ever run out of pork?
:LOL:
 
Notice how there are never shortages of big screen TVs, electronic goods and luxury items to fuel inflation in discretionary items -- it's always the essential commodities...
 
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