C36—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 29,1980
The pork industry has
mounted a national effort to
convince consumers of the
economic and nutritional
value of its products That
explains all the pork com
mercials accompanying the
World Stnes radio and
television coverage.
It also explains why this
column is going to tell you
more about hogs than you
probably want to know For
instance:
Per capita pork con
sumption in the United
States m 1979 was about 70
pounds, third highest on
record;
Americans consumed
800,000 pounds of fresh pork
sausage that year, a 12
percent increase over the
previous year;
They ate two billion
pounds of ham and that was
a 15 percent increase over
the year before;
In lowa, the number one
hog state, the average swine
producer produces enough
pork for 1000 people.
Traditionally, pork has
had low status among
consumes who seem always
to prefer beef even if it costs
more. But recently the price
spread has been such that
more and more consumers
are using more pork
products in their menu
planning.
Meanwhile, the hog in
dustry has done a lot to
produce a better product
The lean, trim pork products
that are displayed in
supermarket meat cases
these days are a far cry from
the pre-World War II hog
There are good reasons for
that.
Back m those days the
typical farm family grew a
few hogs and consumed
some of them right on the
farm. As the old saying goes,
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heard of unless you tuned in
on the World Senes com
mercials
Ground pork was launched
a few years ago in lowa and
has been catching on
nationwide It can be used
just about anywhere you
would use ground beef, and
home economists say it’s a
good source of high quality
protem, plus iron, niacin and
riboflavin.
The industry is producing
ground pork that's about 75
to 80 percent lean meat and
that makes it comparable to
ground chuck So it’s ideal
they used everything but the f or a j o j 0 £ home recipes,
squeal, and a large overly National sales of ground
fat hog produced a variety of pork are increasing as more
home use products including an( j more homemakers are
lard for cooking, fatback, hearing about it and finding
cracklings, sow belly, ham, ways to use it Most ground
bacon, pickled pigs feet, and pork is produced right at the
pork skin But times packing plant from tnm
changed and so did con- mmgs from the shoulder,
sumer preferences and the loin or bellyj slnce they
demand for lard and salt contain the reddest muscle
pork plummeted. and are mostly lean
So farmers and resear- Ground pork is a bit more
chers and others vitally perishable than ground beef,
involved m the swine in- according to the experts, and
dustry literally re-designed lts fj avor Wl u deteriorate
the hog. They made it longer f aS £ er a ft er storage in the
and taller and trimmer, and refrigerator. So it should be
they eliminated almost all of stored in the coldest place in
the heavy backfat covering refrigerator where the
that used to be part of a pig. temperature is as low as
Then they came up with possible without actually
new products and new freezing,
recipes and new mer- Don’t confuse ground pork
chandismg ideas, and now with sausage. Those are two
pork is right there in the completely different
forefront competing with products Sausage has been
beef and chicken for the a round since before
consumer meat dollar and recorded history It was bom
supplying some of the finest of necessity as a means of
restaurant and home keeping meat from spoiling
prepared meals. since there was no such thing
One good example of that as an lcebox
is ground pork - a product The word sausage actually
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One final historic note on
pork Sausage made from
pork played an important
part in early history. It
seems that Julius Caesar,
who died in 44 8.C., used it in
his military campaigns
The art of seasoning and
preserving sausage has
advanced to such a high
level that he was able to gam
advantages over barbarian
armies by issuing pork
sausage to his legions His
enemies meanwhile lost
precious hours hunting game
in the forests or feeding
domestic animals
In those days sausage
accompanied manifestations
of hilarity and joy So much
so that the early church
came to associate sausage
with heathen behavior.
Reformers were actually
able to get a prohibition law
passed against sausage, so
the Romans had to smuggle
their treasured meat
products past prohibition
agents. Finally, the un
popular law was stnckened
from the books.
Pork is making some
inroads into the fast food
industry and when it finally
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