You Always Knew It Was Special We here at TG World Domination HQ love us some bacon. Well, except for the vegetarians. (Honestly, most of them love it and yet manage to restrain themselves. We don't know how they do it.) The Pork Checkoff (which is a national pork lobbying organization but makes us imagine Pigs in Space talking about nuclear wessels) put out a document that has all sorts of statistics - a pie chart with a blue wedge indicating bacon cheeseburgers accounted for 13% of restaurant pork eatings in 2009, one that shows that bacon was 18.2% of US in-home pork consumption in 2009 (topped only by ham and sausage), a bar graph showing how "menued pork items" have grown over the past 10 years. Besides making verbs out of nouns and nouns out of verbs, they provide us with neat numbers to sink our teeth into. Then we got to the "Estimated Daily U.S. Slaughter Capacity" table, which made us cringe. According to the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service's 2009 data, your average
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