{"id":1371,"date":"2012-09-24T21:55:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T01:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2012-09-24T21:55:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T01:55:34","slug":"catastrophe-global-bacon-shortage-unavoidable-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/09\/24\/catastrophe-global-bacon-shortage-unavoidable-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Catastrophe: Global Bacon Shortage &#8220;Unavoidable&#8221; Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 1em 1em 0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uploads.neatorama.com\/images\/posts\/819\/52\/52819\/1348534031-0.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"We're doomed! Doomed, I tell you!\" >Humanity. It had a good run, wouldn&#8217;t you say? Now it&#8217;s over. According to the UK&#8217;s National Pig Association, pig farms will be unable to keep up with production necessary to feed the world population the pork-based nutrients necessary to live:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>New data shows the European Union pig herd is declining at a significant rate, and this is a trend that is being mirrored around the world. Pig farmers have been plunged into loss by high pig-feed costs, caused by the global failure of maize and soya harvests. All main European pig-producing countries report shrinking sow herds.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/09\/24\/bacon-sausage-shortage_n_1909609.html\">Link<\/a> -via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.herald.com\/dave_barrys_blog\/2012\/09\/where-the-hell-is-the-so-called-united-nations.html\">Dave Barry<\/a> | Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/florida_photo_guy\/\">ClaraDon<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.herald.com\/dave_barrys_blog\/2012\/09\/where-the-hell-is-the-so-called-united-nations.html\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you love bacon? Enjoy it while it lasts at our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatoshop.com\/catg\/Bacon-Store\">Bacon Store<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Neatorama?a=96pvPVSA01Q:w8gWF1YjoSE:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Neatorama?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>via Neatorama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2012\/09\/24\/Catastrophe-Global-Bacon-Shortage-Unavoidable-Next-Year\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Neatorama+%28Neatorama%29\">http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2012\/09\/24\/Catastrophe-Global-Bacon-Shortage-Unavoidable-Next-Year\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Neatorama+%28Neatorama%29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanity. It had a good run, wouldn&#8217;t you say? Now it&#8217;s over. According to the UK&#8217;s National Pig Association, pig farms will be unable to keep up with production necessary to feed the world population the pork-based nutrients necessary to live: New data shows the European Union pig herd is declining at a significant rate, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/09\/24\/catastrophe-global-bacon-shortage-unavoidable-next-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Catastrophe: Global Bacon Shortage &#8220;Unavoidable&#8221; Next Year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[6,215,216],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-ifttt","tag-john-farrier","tag-neatorama"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-m7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}