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Crow Bar 7 months, 2 weeks ago.
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Reason his numbers are bullshit 50 percent of pig 8n world in China official number is 70 percent dead, real number probably in the 80s. Even at 50 percent it is at 25 percent of the pigs in the world.. not counting any other country. At end of this if they can’t get vaccine for it which I doubt as possible due to nature of flu as name one year they got it right in humans since begining of vaccination program?
It means pork will become a rarer commodity for years, even if they got vaccine now it would take china 6 years to rebuild herd, and remember the farmers who lost the pigs will be bankrupt and their skills will be lost as they find other work. Atleast infastructure will remain if china stops developers from changing it to other types of use and they may have to build clean farms as we don’t know much about this strain of flu.
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BS, maybe not.
There have been a mess of different reports, and excuses.
Its going to get interesting for the next couple of years at best. Between the cattle, swine and crops, there will not be a surplus like we and the world are accustomed to.
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Opes, posted this previously on the wrong thread.
Swine flu/fever can cross over to humans: More about Swine Flu / Fever
And it is an international problem, the pigs getting sick. So yeah, bacon is going to get scarce. Read that China is now going for an alternative protein source .. dogs.
There there is this China’s Breeding Giant Pigs That Are as Heavy as Polar Bears
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Pig Plague Starts Rippling Through American Meat Markets
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pig-plague-starts-rippling-american-192503598.html
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I think with the way things are happening around the world with our food supplies. The fires in CA., our weather, not enough rain or to much rain, flooding etc. The problem with the pigs and not just pigs. Our food chain is detertating at an alarming rate. And no bacon, my grandkids would die on the spot. They live for bacon. My daughter works for Smithfield foods. She does the medical billing. China bought out a great deal of Smithfield foods. Things are not looking good and I am already noticing a lack of canned goods in stores as they now don’t even put out near what they used to and is spreading out all the can goods to try to make shelves look full. We are heading for a famine. It may not be next year but I am willing to bet we are going to see a food shortage as it is already starting to show in the stores now.
I plan on buying some boston butts to can when they go on sell. As well as stocking up on bacon. They say you can can bacon but I would be leary of doing it. So going to buy some canned bacon from one of the long term places. Will have to see who has the best deals. I feel a resseion is around the corner and then a strong possiblity of a depression coming down the road.
Things are lining up fast now.
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@LittleSis,
You can store pork in its own fat too, confit (pronounced con-feet).
I think I posted about it with pics in the food storage section.
And, you can reuse the fat more than once for storage.
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