http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-bacon-shortage-09242012,0,1372893.story

this is not going to be good.....

I dunno. I've heard that this is a rumor that started in the UK, and doesn't apply to the US market. We are paying too much for pork, yes, and also beef and chicken and every other sort of meat, mainly because of increases in the costs of fuel and feed, two things that are related in the most hellish way. We are forcing ourselves to convert 40% of all the corn we grow into ethanol, and forcing ourselves to buy the shit to power our vehicles. This taints and tilts the farm commodities market and the energy commodities market, and ripples through the real estate market and rumbles down through basic consumer prices. We are literally running out of feet to shoot ourselves in.

We'll have plenty of pork in the US. It will just be more expensive..............like everything.

I wouldn't call it a rumor, though I do believe it's a bit overblown, the media loves a crisis.
With that said, we can probably expect to see a 15% price increase in certain products, demand does that and producers will meet demand best as possible.
But if the product just isn't available, the price will reflect it.

The global affect was overblown by the UK,, but then I started wondering just what our own drought did and how it will affect prices.  so I found this,,,,, it wont happen tomorrow but it will happen to a pretty good degree of change.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/newsroom/us-drought-2012-farm-and-food-impacts.aspx
I catch things like I posted,,, then I start looking for maybe yes-sort of bad, kinda bad,,, and oh snap that's gonna suck.
Sorry I been alittle busy around here lately otherwise I would have been in sooner...

My family is always well stocked on pork, I can't think of anything that Bacon can't make better.   

In all seriousness, one of my local groceries does a one day meat sale every other month, we usually stock up on pork then, my freezer is pretty full of hams, chops, loins, and links.  The only thing we always need more of is bacon, and that is never cheap.

We like bacon but I have to buy nitrite free.  That is really not cheap. 

I actually like turkey bacon....not sure what part of the turkey they use...   

Quote from: Solars Toy on October 07, 2012, 04:39:59 PM
We like bacon but I have to buy nitrite free.  That is really not cheap. 

I actually like turkey bacon....not sure what part of the turkey they use...   

There is a butcher about 15 miles from me who will do nitrate free, I am pretty excited about that.

I watched an Unwrapped show on the food network that talked about how turkey bacon is made, so you might be able to find out how on food network's website.  I didn't pay much attention because I live across from a huge string of turkey barns, so we don't really eat turkey.  I see too much. 

Quote from: JustKari on October 07, 2012, 05:55:22 PM
There is a butcher about 15 miles from me who will do nitrate free, I am pretty excited about that.

I watched an Unwrapped show on the food network that talked about how turkey bacon is made, so you might be able to find out how on food network's website.  I didn't pay much attention because I live across from a huge string of turkey barns, so we don't really eat turkey.  I see too much. 

My sisters live in Arkansas.  I have seen turkey farms.  Not pretty....