Bacon prices increase because of Piglet diarrhea

[Misfit]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/.../?Post+generic=?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost

Bacon was $5.56 a pound at the end of January, up from $3.63 in 2010, according to recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

But the major price driver is unappetizing: a pig diarrhea epidemic that has killed more than four million piglets since last spring, threatening to reduce supply and push bacon prices up further, Steve Meyer, president of Paragon Economics, told CNBC.

 

[Pete]

The horror. 4 Million pigs with the squirts.

 

[RoseRed]

Why did you post this right before lunch.

 

[Pete]

Why did you post this right before lunch.

Ruined your BLT and chocolate pudding plans?

 

[RoseRed]

Ruined your BLT and chocolate pudding plans?

Yup. Where we going?

 

[Pete]

Yup. Where we going?

Can't today. I am having gormet leftovers.

 

[Misfit]

Ruined your BLT and chocolate pudding plans?

I watched a "how things are made" last weekend and it was about blood pudding.

 

[RoseRed]

Can't today. I am having gormet leftovers.

Frozen pancakes and string cheese are not gourmet leftovers.

 

[Vince]

Frozen pancakes and string cheese are not gourmet leftovers.

 

[NextJen]

And I thought pigs only went wee.