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How Government Will Take Meat off Your Table
By Selwyn Duke
The British pork industry is collapsing, and it’s a story that should
serve as a warning to all of us. Why? Because the agents of its demise
have the entire West in their crosshairs.
The numbers are staggering. With a pig herd halved during the last
decade, Britain has gone from producing 110 percent of its domestic
consumption of pork to only 40 percent. This is due to many of the
nation’s pig farmers having left the business, and they’re poised to be
joined by 100 more this year, which represents “10% of Britain’s small
to medium-sized producers,” reports the Guardian. Consequently, it’s predicted that domestic production will decline another 20 percent by Christmas.
Britain’s pork farmers’ woes have been worsened by the droughts in
the United States, which have increased the cost of feed. But what’s the
source of their underlying problems? If you guessed government, go to
the head of the class. As the Financial Times writes, “UK farmers are part of a global trend as the cost of feed and compliance with welfare regulations hits suppliers worldwide.”
The “regulations” in question are animal-welfare regulations….
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http://www.selwynduke.com” target=”_blank”Selwyn Duke is a writer, columnist and public speaker whose work has been published widely online and in print, on both the local and national levels. He has been featured on the Rush Limbaugh Show and has been a featured guest more than 50 times on the award-winning Michael Savage Show. His work has appeared in Pat Buchanan’s magazine The American Conservative, at WorldNetDaily.com and he writes regularly for The New American
2012-10-04 02:46:48
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