Bring home the bacon

As if we didn't have enough problems to worry about in this world. Wars and rumors of wars, global warming, illiteracy, graft and corruption. Now add this one to the list. The Great American Pork Pile. According to Bloomberg, we here in America are sitting on a veritable matterhorn of uneaten bacon, the likes of which we have not seen since 1943.

America is sitting on a mountain of uneaten bacon.
More than 40 million pounds (18,000 metric tons) of pork bellies, the cut used for bacon making, were sitting in refrigerated warehouses as of Sept. 30, according to U.S. government data released Tuesday. That’s the most for the month since 1971.
The overhang came after a build up in the American hog herd. Pork output surged over the summer months and through September, said Dennis Smith, senior account executive at Archer Financial Services Inc. Bellies have seen a magnified inventory increase because demand is mostly domestic, unlike cuts such as ham, for which overseas buying can help reduce reserves.
Hog producers started building up their herds in anticipation of more demand for meat imports from China, where African swine fever has killed millions of pigs. The U.S. herd swelled to 77.7 million head. as of Sept. 1, a record for the month and the highest since 1943 considering all periods, the most recent U.S. Department of Agriculture data show.

You want to help your country? Skip the stupid quinoa and kale at lunch tomorrow and order a BLT.

Make America great again. Eat more bacon.