Global Authorities Brace For Worldwide Protein Shortage After "Quarter Of Earth's Pigs Wiped Out"

I stopped eating pork years ago, not for religious reasons. Many reasons why, first and foremost they eat their own babies.

What?

*Looks at closet stuffed with peanutbutter.*



Meh.

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by Tyler Durden
Sun, 10/27/2019 - 13:20

Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,

African Swine Fever is killing millions upon millions of pigs all over the world, and this threatens to create a crippling global shortage of protein as we head into 2020. This epidemic began in China last year, and it is now also running wild in North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and the Philippines. But this crisis is certainly not limited to Asia. According to the Washington Post, so far in 2019 there have also been outbreaks “in Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Russia and Ukraine.” ...

... This is a global plague unlike anything we have ever seen before.

According to the New York Daily News, “more than one-quarter of Earth’s pigs have been wiped out by the virulent disease.”

I put that last sentence in bold to make sure that you caught that.

More than a fourth of our pigs are already gone, and this virus is still raging out of control.

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So good to see you, Citizen Perth! Even with the bad news. I was aware of this, and am recommending people start growing eggplant, as it is a marvelous source of protein. We have to do what we have to do.

Those with freeze dryers would do well to scarf up all meat on sale and preserve it for future reference. The rest of us will make jerky or grow eggplant, or both.

Waste of time and space to grow eggplant really. I guess it depends on where anyone lives, here, Zone 8b maritime climate it produces a few eggplants and you have to baby it.

So good to see you, Citizen Perth! Even with the bad news. I was aware of this, and am recommending people start growing eggplant, as it is a marvelous source of protein. We have to do what we have to do.

Those with freeze dryers would do well to scarf up all meat on sale and preserve it for future reference. The rest of us will make jerky or grow eggplant, or both.