Doesn't it look good? Yum! I love it, but since I know it can't be that good for me, I eat it sparingly.
All this brings to mind the time years ago when I tried my luck in the pig farming bidness. I had a trash-haul guy, Eddie, who owned some land in the country about 50 miles north of Dallas. He was always looking for a way to make some extra money, and that included raising pigs, goats, cattle....anything legal....and maybe even a few things not legal. I never asked.
One day he approached me offering a joint venture deal. It worked like this: I would give him $500 and he would buy some piglets. Then he would take them to his property and feed them, and when they were "porky" enough, he'd sell them and we'd split 50-50. Sure, why not.
Shockingly, after 4 months and 1 week I received a check payable to me from the Bonham (TX) livestock auction for $1,154. That's about a 400% annual return. WOW!
He asked if I wanted to do it again, and I said absolutely! My brother even wanted in this time. I briefly thought about giving him $10,000, but I really didn't trust him that much. His could have been a small-time Ponzi scheme for all I knew. I stuck with another $500.
This time, however, it took 10 months before he handed me $900 cash for my $500 investment. As I had already figured out that pigs grew fast, I deduced he sold our bacon months earlier and floated himself a loan. Sneaky, but I still couldn't complain.
I've often thought maybe I should have stuck with it and applied to the Agriculture Department for a "Not-Raising-Pigs Subsidy". I could have started by not raising a few dozen pigs, then a few hundred, and over time upped that to not raising several thousand a year. (Isn't that how the government works?) I could have been a pigless pig farming mogul by now!
Wonder why when Wall Street is on fire they call it a Bull Market? Why not a Pork Market? Seems to me that's where the big investment opportunity is.
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We'd better get used to not eating pork. Roger Ebert blogged about how by 2090 the planet will no longer be able to support the growing population in large part because we use so many resources feeding livestock. So we'll be seeing more shortages in the future. How sad.
ReplyDeleteNo Bacon! Maybe we should stop paying people to not raise pigs.
ReplyDeleteI can't help but wonder why God made pigs so tasty---and so smart. One of these days pigs are going to realize we're eating them and the world will go hogwild!
ReplyDeleteI also heard about this earlier, a lot of things are becoming short due to the drought conditions, makes the government subsidy program look good.
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