Bacon prices can’t keep rising. I love it too much. This development could jump start the revolution. It’s a known fact that bacon price increases initiated the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution. Little known fact – Lenin was baconaholic.
Even with bacon prices at all time time highs, the BLS says it hasn’t increased at all because the average person switched to eating Purina Beggin Strips. It’s the next best thing to real bacon.
Even dogs are upset about the increase in meat prices.
Price of Beef and Bacon Reach All-Time High
(CNSNews.com) – The price of beef and bacon hit its all-time high in the United States in June, according to data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).In January 1980, when BLS started tracking the price of these commodities, ground chuck cost $1.82 per pound and bacon cost $1.45 per pound. By this June 2014, ground chuck cost $3.91 per pound and bacon cost $6.11 per pound.A decade ago, in June 2004, a pound of ground chuck cost $2.49, which means that the commodity has increased by 57 percent since then. Bacon has increased by 78.7 percent from the $3.42 it cost in June 2004 to the $6.11 it costs now.
In one month, beef increased from $3.85 in May 2014 to $3.91 in June 2014. Bacon increased from $6.05 in May 2014 to $6.11 in June 2014.
Each month, the BLS employs data collectors to visit thousands of retail stores all over the United States to obtain information on the prices of thousands of items to measure changes for the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The CPI is simply the average change over time in prices paid by consumers for a market basket of goods and services.
The BLS found that there was a 0.1 percent change in the food index in June, which tracks foods like meats, poultry, fish, eggs and dairy, as well as many others. “The index for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs increased in June, though its 0.2 percent increase was its smallest since December,” stated BLS.
“The index for food at home has increased 2.4 percent over the past year, with the index for meats, poultry, fish and eggs up 7.5 percent,” BLS stated.
Buy as much bacon now as you can. 7 million piglets have died from the virus. Prices could double or triple…
As Pig Virus Spreads, The Price Of Pork Continues To Rise
by Abbie Fentress Swanson
If you’re bringing home the bacon, you may have noticed a price tag inching upward.
Consumers are paying nearly 13 percent more for pork at the supermarket than they were this time last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A deadly pig disease is partially to blame.
Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, or PEDv, has killed more than 7 million piglets in the past year, and the number of cases is on the rise. Many hog producers are worried about how to keep their farms immune from a disease that has no proven cure.
“The disease is very serious and if it hits a farm, there is near 100 percent mortality for piglets below a certain age, which is a significant loss on any farm,” says Michael Yezzi, who raises about 1,000 hogs a year at in Shushan, N.Y. “And while it doesn’t kill the older pigs, it impacts the growth of the pigs remaining on the farm.”
Piglets at Hilldale Farm in State Center, Iowa in March 2013, just before porcine epidemic diarrhea began spreading through hog farms in the U.S.
A screen grab from an undercover video released by the Humane Society of the U.S. shows a pig in a gestation crate at Iron Maiden Farms in Owensboro, Ky.
PEDv first appeared in the U.S. in April 2013. Since then, the virus has infected more than 4,700 farms in 30 states. Scientists do not believe the disease can be transmitted to humans. But research is ongoing about the origin of the virus, whether previously infected sows can catch the disease more than once and exactly how PEDv is spread.
“It’s a delicate balance because you don’t want to raise people’s concerns, because that could have a negative impact on the market. You don’t want to raise people’s concerns, because export activities could be impacted,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on the .
I’ll stop eating bacon if it hits $40 pound.
Bacon = Life.
Little bb loves bacon.I buy him a couple pounds when we are home on weekends.I have to cook it.
No shit, bb, you don’t want the cat cooking. He’s already done a number on some posts with your moniker on it.
bacon is to a white guy as ribs are to ?
Wonder if i could bribe the cop into not giving me a ticket if i give him a complimentary pound of farmer john’s bacon? for your troubles, officer. (works in Mexico)
http://youtu.be/GXhJPey3i_A
Plague rising? Meh. MERS now airborne? Yawn. EBOLA out of control? Not in my backyard. BUT don’t, don’t mess with my access to BACON, you fucking PIg Virus!
Pig virus, huh?
The report mentions beef prices. We knew this was coming two years ago.
Remember back two years? Big drought? All the cattlemen realized that they wouldn’t have enough to feed their cattle through the winter thanks to the drought. So, they sold massive numbers of cattle to slaughterhouses so they wouldn’t starve to death. This drove the prices way down, obviously.
My neighbor told me to watch beef prices 18 to 24 months downrange and watch how high they go. It’s a shortage, brought on by the big selloff two summers back.
Once the cattle populations build back up, the prices will go back down again.
But the pig thing? No idea it was happening. I don’t eat a whole lot of bacon. Maybe once a year, tops.
Just raise your own pigs, dammit.
Right on Hardscrabble! I took your advice retroactively. Got three hogs in the freezer and that includes all the bacon from those hogs. Must be about fifty, or sixty pounds of just the bacon, sliced, smoked and frozen just waiting for me!
Ain’t no pig shortage at my house. I’ve got two more piglets coming to me next week. That’s whatcha call going long bacon.
I just bought FOUR packages of good bacon made locally at Oxford Food Market, long-time owned & operated by a Chinese family in Victoria, BC. Why did I buy four, you ask? Because while the prices here are always better than the megamarkets, their bacon was C$ 1.99 for 500 grams, 10% more than a pound.
Canadian pork farmers traditionally raise too much for huge Japanese and other off-shore contracts. And too often the buyers come up w/a lame excuse to break the contract because they found something wrong w/the pork, although Canadian scientists cannot find anything wrong. So the price plummets because of the glut, and we consumers benefit, as we have the past three months.
I don’t know why Canuck pork farmers keep falling for this trick. It happens every 6 to 7 years, so maybe it’s like voters forgetting that the clowns they elect rarely do what they say they will: high hopes quashed by market manipulations.
Joseph, We’re not talking about Canadian bacon – which normal people call ham. We’re talking about real bacon, eh?
Yo, Iska!
I wasn’t writing about back bacon, but flank, from the side, or ‘pork bellies’ as they’re known in commodity trading, and this was sliced just as you find it in the market.
I once raised a lot of animals and pigs were among them, but not cattle, as they require too much land. So I butchered my pigs and know the cuts all ’round.
In the UK they have four or five styles of bacon, but it all comes at the pig’s expense!
Thank you factory farms and laws like the one in Michigan that destroyed generations old livestock as “feral” pigs. The reason why these illnesses become epidemic is because we have GMO’d the diversity out of our food supply. This will be our undoing, one species at a time. Bees, pigs, guess what will be next.
The PTB are intentionally setting us up for starvation and want as the USDA, FDA and local gubments actively seek out non-commercial farmers and shut them down for ridiculous reasons.
I spit on them and their children, for them I pray their is a hell and that they are forced to pay for their sins against humanity, and our country.
Meanwhile the UN says water pumped into your home is a “right,” (side note, I wonder how much the UN is going to bill us for this “right” to be delivered to the billions worldwide that have no such things) and says nothing about the right to our food supply remaining nutritious and living.
So many shoes, so few lifetimes to “enjoy” the show.
Joseph, I know. That was just my lame attempt at a joke, having seen Canada and bacon in the same paragraph. Minnesota is basically Canada, only we don’t have to learn French.
Yo, Iska!
Ya, I gave you a thumbs up. My friend Jim Carter played semi-pro hockey in Minnesota back in the day; he & his wife Kelly liked it very much. As for French, when I was in HS, 1956-1960, it was an elective. I took German, as I’ve always liked their literature, music, etc. Hell, all the French I know I learned from cereal boxes and food labels!
The chinese bought smithfield farms, the world’s largest pork producer. It could be the demand for pork worldwide has increased with the population, the drought which billy mentioned, and the thousands of pigs floating downstream in china’s rivers. Just connecting the dots, but I don’t recall ever reading about what caused the pig kill off in China.
Apparently, china is suffering from pigflation, too, so while the causes may be regional, they result is widespread.
Uh oh, there may be a common cause, porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED). From the article,
“Scientists think porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED), which does not infect humans or other animals, came from China, but they don’t know how it got into the U.S. or spread to 27 states since last May.”
“PED thrives in cold weather, which is why researchers believe the death toll in the United States has soared since December.”
http://www.care2.com/causes/whats-killing-thousands-of-pigs-in-china-and-in-the-us.html and
http://qz.com/138621/the-disease-that-killed-a-million-piglets-in-china-has-spread-to-the-us-and-no-one-knows-why/
“I don’t eat a whole lot of bacon. Maybe once a year, tops.” ———– Billy
Don’t you supposedly have German heritage? IMPOSTER!!!!
I’m sitting here at this very moment eating bacon from my own pigs, which I gutted, scraped and dismembered, then salted, then smoked, then aged, then fried it up and put it on a plate next to some pancakes (from a box) but doused in my own maple syrup. Wake up people! If you want bacon, it ain’t that hard to find a piglet, and they shore are easy to feed.
That’s beautiful.
Admenstrulator,
Aren’t you supposed to be down on the border using a wire cutter to open the fence a little wider for the next crop of 9th grade dropouts who will be riding their burros to Silicon Valley to start a tech company?
Please stop riting nonsensense, Iska. We’re trying to survive what looks to be one hellacious 4T crisis; this is not a trifling matter.
The world of golf is in trouble, and bacon prices are rising. I think Admin is trying to tell me that life as I know it is collapsing.