So - pork belly smuggling?
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So - pork belly smuggling?
That, and a resurgence of interest in hunting and trapping. Feral swine and wild boar are both common in the sunshine state.
Timerover51
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I do not think that there is a closed season on them either.
Does this regulation affect all pork products? If so, then no more ham, pork sausage, Spam, some hot dogs and brats, not to mention a lot of Chinese cooking imports from China. Chinese cooking uses a lot of pork.
I can just see more check stations at the borders of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona looking for people bringing pork products in. Then there will be the airports, checking luggage for canned ham and Spam. Think of all of the bureaucrats that will be hired to enforce this!
Condottiere
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Pork belly smuggling.
I'm oversimplifying, but the sticking point is that CA has enacted regulations about minimum cage size for farmed swine, and if major pork producing states comply, it'll increase production costs or reduce production -- either way, prices go up everywhere. So yes, it affects far more than bacon.
Also it's not just California, Massachusetts has an identical law, going in to effect at the same time. Californias law is essentially a drag and drop of theres.
We certainly don't have the feral hog problems that other states do here, at least not down here in So Cal. Not that I've heard (not that I'm really in that community).
USDA maps (link here) say that most CA counties have them, although I doubt you can see one on Wilshire Blvd outside of a fossil exhibit at the tar pits. Forested areas adjacent to agriculture up and down the state? Yeah, they've got'em. Morse, Gilroy... good climate, good forage, nearby concealment.
I saw an unescorted pig along 17-mile Drive once, but I suspect it was a pet.
I saw an unescorted pig along 17-mile Drive once, but I suspect it was a pet.
I'm sure we have some here, that map isn't really helpful in discussing the magnitude of the problem. Seems < 1200 per year are taken state wide, mostly in Northern California.
But season is open all year, and there's no bag limit in CA.
In Texas, they're shooting them from helicopters with automatic weapons. I think they can hunt by night with lights in Texas too. It's definitely wide open season on them in Texas.
But season is open all year, and there's no bag limit in CA.
In Texas, they're shooting them from helicopters with automatic weapons. I think they can hunt by night with lights in Texas too. It's definitely wide open season on them in Texas.
In several states, it's permissible to hunt them with pen traps: large fenced in areas with multiple gates. Spread feed in the pen, wait for them to congregate, and drop, and drop the gates.
Though hunting from a helicopter with automatic weapons sounds like quite a flex.
Though hunting from a helicopter with automatic weapons sounds like quite a flex.
BackworldTraveller
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Strange, we have done that over here already - not as bad as you suggest.
Condottiere
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How much pork are we talking about?
The exact numbers are a state secret. No, seriously.
Officials have, however, given some hints. Part of the point of a reserve is psychological. If there’s too much secrecy, the reserve loses its power to reassure people that supplies are ample.
In a 1996 essay, an official with China Foods Limited, a government-affiliated company that managed the national pork reserve, wrote that the official stockpile had grown to 200,000 tons from around 20,000 tons at inception. The number dipped in the early 2000s, researchers say. But it seemed to have recovered by 2011, when, amid a bout of infectious disease that brought pork prices to new highs, China’s commerce ministry said the national reserve held around 200,000 tons.
The big question, of course, is whether the reserves could ever be large enough to have a meaningful effect on prices. China consumes over 50 million tons of pork a year, or nearly half of the pork that is eaten annually by all of humankind. Pretty much all of that comes from pigs raised within the country.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/business/china-strategic-pork-reserve.html
The exact numbers are a state secret. No, seriously.
Officials have, however, given some hints. Part of the point of a reserve is psychological. If there’s too much secrecy, the reserve loses its power to reassure people that supplies are ample.
In a 1996 essay, an official with China Foods Limited, a government-affiliated company that managed the national pork reserve, wrote that the official stockpile had grown to 200,000 tons from around 20,000 tons at inception. The number dipped in the early 2000s, researchers say. But it seemed to have recovered by 2011, when, amid a bout of infectious disease that brought pork prices to new highs, China’s commerce ministry said the national reserve held around 200,000 tons.
The big question, of course, is whether the reserves could ever be large enough to have a meaningful effect on prices. China consumes over 50 million tons of pork a year, or nearly half of the pork that is eaten annually by all of humankind. Pretty much all of that comes from pigs raised within the country.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/business/china-strategic-pork-reserve.html
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I suspect that it's effect is psychological, reducing panic-driven market actions.
The Canadian strategic maple syrup reserve is, by my lazy web-searching, about 48,000 tons. (about 3000 tons were stolen in the heist).
Annual production in Canada was at 13 million gallons, or 54,000 tons, in 2019.
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