Endangered eats

By Sarah Berry
Updated October 19 2012 - 5:23pm, first published October 10 2012 - 8:41am
Pigmeat production is on the decline...
Pigmeat production is on the decline...

PORK
Last week the UK's National Pig Association called for the world to “Save our bacon”. As droughts in the US and Europe have raised feed prices, a global shortage of pigmeat is “now inevitable”, said senior analyst with the British agriculture development board, Stephen Howarth. “The number of pigs on the ground next year is going to be lower ... North America, and Brazil and China [are] in even a worse state, so there are going to be shortages of pork on the global market as well.”

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