Oh, Here We Go…. Again

Pigs in the UK will have to be sent to the killers due to a shortage of CO2 for the food and beverage industry. The store shelves in the UK are literally bare, thanks to this failure to keep up with demand for foodstuffs that can be stored on the shelves and in refrigerated cases.

The source is at the following link:

https://www.thegwpf.com/green-britain-faces-food-shortages-as-energy-crisis-shuts-down-factories/

With winter coming on over the northern hemisphere, the idea that there’s nothing in the pantry may soon be a reality. It’s the reason I stock well ahead.

Hey, don’t ask me: I just find the stuff and hand it to you!

https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/news/uk-carbon-dioxide-shortage-could-force-farmers-to-cull-pigs/ar-AAOyyQQ

The problem has to do with CO2 use in the British food and drinks industry.

It’s complicated, so I will break it into simpler terms. CO2 figures in carbonized drinks like beer and soda pop, in baked goods such as bread (bread, my friends, requires CO2 to make yeast flourish and make your buns get all fluffy), and other things such as keeping frozen foods cold during transport (dry ice, etc., people!). CO2 is also used to slaughter hogs at the abbatoirs. No, they don’t CO2 them to death: they use CO2 cartridges to do the dirty deed of turning piggy into bacon and ham and breakfast sausages and pork roasts.

It’s not quite as simple as KoB going out with a hunting rifle and decimating the local wild hog population so that he can have his roast beast for supper.

CO2 is also involved in making cheese, among other things. Those holes in Swiss cheese are the products of unreleased CO2 bubbles while the cheese ingredients ferment into Swiss. You will likely see other types of cheese with smaller holes that look like distorted bubbles. CO2 is the culprit there.

So, a lack of CO2 in the British food industry is a problem. And frankly, the farmers, upon being told they have to slaughter their piggies, are none too happy about it.

There is more at the article link. Enjoy it and be happy that over here – so far – we have not had this issue occur… so far. Ah, but remember last winter, when suddenly, you could only purchase ONE box of kleenex and ONE pack of bath tissue?  If you recall the shutdowns over here last fall and winter because of the covid lockdowns, and the shortages of breakfast sausages and beef in the meat cases, do we really want to go through that painful stuff again?

But think for a moment before you go “pshaw!” and sniffle over it. Do you REALLY want to drink flat beer??? I don’t think so!

And to think that, thanks to Boris the PM (that’s not what they really call him) and his girlfriend Princess Nut-Nut’s idiotic decisions, as well as all the Greenbeaners and Ecohippies who have been complaining loudly about the “high” levels of CO2 in the world, when CO2 is a mere 0.04% of a percent of the entire volume of the atmosphere itself, there is now a massive shortage of CO2 for the British food industry (including beer and other liquid refreshments) and the contents of the shelves at the groceries are low to bare.

I have seldom had such an urge to fall down laughing.

What’s next? No more garlic for dill pickles?

Stock your shelves, folks. If we have another national lockdown over nothing but the dumbocrats being the incompetent control freaks they are, we’re all gonna need those calories on our pantry and closet shelves, and we may have to go back to making bread like that 18^th century re-enactor in Indiana.

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