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Amorous Badger asks: Tell us tales of people who have a high opinion of themselves. Jumped-up officials, the mad old bloke who runs the Neighbourhood Watch like it's a military operation, Colonel Blimps, pompous bastards and people stuck up their own arse.

(, Thu 24 Jan 2013, 12:22)
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Nope.
I'm a farmer of swine and I eat a lot of meat.

I'm just tired of food fascists telling me what to eat. Bigoted fuckwits.
(, Tue 29 Jan 2013, 1:56, 1 reply)
I hope those are free range pigs

(, Tue 29 Jan 2013, 2:13, closed)
Certainly not.
Freedom's too good for 'em.
(, Tue 29 Jan 2013, 2:25, closed)
Pork in Canada is so cheap
I don't even bother with bread, I just slap mustard on slices of tenderloin.
Must be tough to turn a profit raising pigs though.
(, Tue 29 Jan 2013, 2:39, closed)
Naturally, there is no profit.
At least very little for most of us.
I'm faring slightly better in that my swinelets are exported south of the border and we get a contracted price for them.
Other parts of the business are not so lucky. At the mercy of inflated feed prices, a processing and distribution system that makes money for everyone but the producer and intense competitive pressure, the industry is a joke.

It's still better than the UK though.

There is a cyclical system of profit and doom in the pig industry, so we'll probably make some serious money again if we can sustain the losses for another year or two.
(, Tue 29 Jan 2013, 3:25, closed)
Why do you say feed prices
are inflated?

They're based on the commodity markets. Those are driven by lots of factors, not least of all oil prices.

Your pigfood is also used to make fuel. That's what's making it expensive.
(, Tue 29 Jan 2013, 11:43, closed)
I say inflated because they have risen by a significant amount.
You're right of course, they are a commodity like everything else.
In north America it is the decision to use corn as a biofuel source which has inflated the price of this commodity. That and a poor harvest which has decreased availability.But you can't eat biofuel and animal food here has a strong bias towards corn (maize)
Maize isn't a staple in Europe so things are different there but still the feed input to pig production has increased from about 40% of cost of production to around 70%.
Interestingly the Chinese government once infamous for poor decisions in food policy, looked at this idea and decided that making a staple food crop into fuel , in the face of a growing population, would have been a bad choice and have avoided it. I think the premier used the word "mad".
The times are a changin'.
(, Tue 29 Jan 2013, 12:13, closed)
All makes sense,
although I'm not sure how far the Chinese governments pragmatic approach will stretch if oil prices start shooting up again.

'course the other big factor is the idiots on Wall street. They can drive the markets up or down by 20% after a boozy lunch.
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