According to Britain’s National Pig Association, an industry group that The Daily Caller did not make up out of thin air, a global bacon shortage is nigh. In a statement released last week, the association said that “[a] world shortage of pork and bacon next year is now unavoidable.”
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.
Apparently, a lack of rain throughout the United States and Russia has caused a shortage of corn and soy crops, which is what pigs — that eventually turn into delicious strips of succulent bacon — eat, the Financial Times reports.
