Buy pork

Our pork producers [the kind on the big farms, not the kind in Washington] are complaining, perhaps correctly, that calling this new strain of influenza “swine flu” is hurting them because people are avoiding pork or pork products.

Maybe different nomenclature will help, but what might help would be if we all purchased a bit more pork. I wouldn’t want anybody to do anything they feel violates their conscience [e.g., buy Hormel] or religious dictates [e.g, our Muslim and Jewish friends], but if you can find some pork that you can use, maybe it would be a good idea to get some.

I picked up some pork chops yesterday.