Category: Bacon and Pigs
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Eat More Bacon!
by James A. Bacon Step aside, Artificial Intelligence, it’s time for a business story that really matters to every American household. Smithfield Foods, the Chinese-owned, Virginia-based pork producer, has gone public in an Initial Public Offering (IPO). The company’s big challenge, according to CEO Shane Smith, is persuading Americans to eat more pork. That shouldn’t…
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Bacon’s Birthday (Sir Francis’, That Is)
It’s high time we begin celebrating the birthday, January 22, of the most consequential individual surnamed Bacon in history: Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626). A proponent of empiricism and skepticism in the pursuit of scientific inquiry, Bacon is widely regarded as the philosophical founder of the scientific revolution. As a member of parliament, according to Wikipedia,…