Comments for The Washington Post Tells Readers That the Korean Trade Pact Would Send Pork Prices Soaring at http://www.cepr.net , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.cepr.net Sat, 25 May 2013 10:33:36 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-washington-post-tells-readers-that-the-korean-trade-pact-would-send-pork-prices-soaring#comment-2535 That can't be right. Neither Robert Byrd nor Ted Stevens weighed anywhere near 300 pounds. - izzatzo Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:05:03 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-washington-post-tells-readers-that-the-korean-trade-pact-would-send-pork-prices-soaring#comment-2531 Hog prices are quoted per cwt (hundredweight, or 100 lbs) so a nominal price of $50/cwt means $150 for a 300lb porker. South Korea isn't such a small market either. We're talking about 50 million people, with per capita pork consumption of about 20kg/yr (pretty close to U.S. per capita consumption). - AK Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:24:18 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-washington-post-tells-readers-that-the-korean-trade-pact-would-send-pork-prices-soaring#comment-2521 A farmer in Indiana today sells a typical market hog for about $150. Adding $10 to the value of a hog would be a 6.7% increase, not 20%. I have no idea if the trade pact would increase pork prices that much but that wouldn't add much to the average Americans food bill. By the way, Americans spend the smallest share of their income on food in the world, which is one reason we're such porkers. - Keith Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:13:39 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-washington-post-tells-readers-that-the-korean-trade-pact-would-send-pork-prices-soaring#comment-2515 this article is actually consistent with the economic conditions- the empirical data clearly show that americans have been living too high on the hog for awhile now - frankenduf Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:49:03 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-washington-post-tells-readers-that-the-korean-trade-pact-would-send-pork-prices-soaring#comment-2513 Hogs are only $50? That is way too cheap. - Joe Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:29:43 +0100