Save Our Bacon

Everyone seems to agree that Mitt Romney needs to turn his campaign around. Here's my idea, Mr. Romney: pledge to form a special taskforce on day one of your presidency to tackle the imminent worldwide bacon shortage.



Right after you repeal Obamacare, of course.

The amusingly named British Pig Association was warned that droughts and higher feed prices have made a global pork/bacon shortage and resulting price increase "unavoidable." The paucity of pork will be more noticeable in Europe. The USDA has predicted that pork production will be down 1.3 percent next year.

If the bacon shortage proves to be unavoidable, here are some survival tweets.