Category: Bacon and Pigs
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Readers, Divine the Election Outcome
Virginia’s elections are down to the wire. The election is Tuesday. The latest poll, by Roanoke College based on responses from 1,041 likely voters, shows Democrat Abigail Spanberger with a 10-point lead (51% to 41%) over Republican Winsome Earle-Sears in the gubernatorial race. Democrat Ghazali Hashmi leads Republican John Reid in the race for lieutenant…
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The Moral and Ecological Necessity of Converting from Burgers to Bacon
Hey, ecowarriors, Nature Magazine has introduced the concept of the “carbon hoofprint,” which measures the carbon impact of meat across the U.S. The bottom line (according to ineluctable logic of the study) is that to save the planet, we need to eat less beef and eat more BACON! To spare readers from the necessity of…
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Bacon Meme de la Semaine: France Is Bacon
From frites to fine wine, from Gothic cathedrals to water-lily murals, there are many things to admire about French culture. Perhaps the least appreciated by Americans is the fact, as I discovered after two weeks in the land of berets and escargot, that the French love their porc products as much as we do. They…
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Bacon in the News: Joe Luter RIP
Joe Luter, the Norfolk-born businessman who rescued Smithfield Foods from near bankruptcy and built it into the nation’s largest producer of pork products, passed away last month. Read his obituary here. The size of the bacon market was estimated to be $15.2 billion in 2024. According to one online source, Virginia-based Smithfield accounted for 27%…
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The Latest Thought Crime: “We Love Bacon”
The world is descending into a very dark place when a man gets arrested for professing his love for bacon. But that’s what it’s come to in the United Kingdom. The gentleman shown above was participating in a July protest in Dalton-in-Furness against construction of a mega-mosque when he broke into a sing-song chant of…
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Bacon Meme of the Week
What does a bacon tree look like? And what kind of song would AI compose for “The Ballad of the Bacon Tree”?