Council president Rich Deaton said, "Today's pig farmers are setting historic records by producing more pigs than ever...Yet our reserves are still depleting." According to the US Department of Agriculture, the country's pork belly inventory came to roughly 17.8 million pounds in December 2016, the lowest level since 1957.
This has caused an increase in prices, which have risen 20 percent since January, according to the council. The organization noted that hog farmers export about 26 percent of the meat they produce, and posited that foreign demand could be to blame for the deficit.
Deaton remarked, "While bacon may become more expensive for consumers, rest assured the pork industry will not run out of supply."
The passion Americans have for bacon has spawned innumerable novelty products, including bacon-themed jewelry; bacon-flavored candy, soda, and chocolate; bacon-scented incense and body wash; bacon-flavored liquor, and even bacon-scented underwear.
In 2015, the World Health Organization named bacon and other processed meat products as some of the most cancer-causing edible substances in existence, adding the highly-processed meat product to its 'encyclopedia of carcinogens.'
Comment: Scare-mongering! Bacon is actually good for us and provides a number of health benefits. Not only is it loaded with healthy saturated fat, protein, essential vitamins and minerals but has been shown to fight inflammation, is a brain booster and a natural mood enhancer!
Reader Comments
Interesting, the lowest reserves in 50 years, isn't that about the time when Ancels Keys started with all the low fat nonsense. Maybe some people are waking up to the benefit of real food and real fat.
Look what has happened since then with all the fake food that we are told is good for us following government guidelines.
Fake oil substituted for animal fats, red meat is bad for us, eat more carbohydrate foods, diabetics thrive on it, a misnomer if ever heard one. All supplied by mass production. Who benefits.
Let me see corporate mass fake food production, pharmacy companies with all the drugs they supply to relieve the inflammation caused by all these mass products which in reality can not be called "real food". If one needs to have a degree in biochemical engineering to decipher the product label, then you can be assured, it's fake food.
The human body has become so distorted,
When I first started to work in healthcare many years ago, morbid obesity was something that had to be investigated, now it's seen throughput the western world and is accepted as somewhat normal.
What happened, industrialization of food on a mass scale, how does that comment go from a well know political figure "control food and you control people".
Additionally, American bacon may be actually cancerous. It is prepared in different way than in many European countries, and the American way is rather crappier in my opinion. The chemicals used aren't exactly harmless. But this is problem with many mass-made meat products.