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Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by douche on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @04:47PM (#11949274)
Pork is even cheaper, for some reason. I've been buying boneless pork chops for something like $1 - $1.50 /pound for years from Market Basket stores.
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Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by bane on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @10:59PM (#11951275)
Pigs are very cheap to raise, they'll happily get to slaughter weight quickly on "waste" foods. They don't need lots of land and they provide lots of meat for their relative size.
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Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by mark-r on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @07:07PM (#11950205)
With the surge of popularity of bacon, there are a lot of pigs being brought to market. Any part of the pig that isn't bacon ends up being cheap because supply/demand.
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Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by eru on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @02:08AM (#11951879)
History lesson: lard pigs used to be much more popular to raise than meat pigs. I wonder whether they'll see a comeback.

(After only half a minute of Googling: http://sugarmtnfarm.com/2015/06/11/lard-vs-bacon-pigs/ )

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