The Bacon Uprising: How China's Top-Secret Strategic Pork Reserve Is Burning Down The Amazon

`` Once the Politburo decided to feed China with pork, the question then became: What would China's pigs eat? One answer is corn. Last week, China purchased 540,000 metric tons of U.S. corn for delivery after August, according to the USDA, more than agency's forecast for the entire year. About 70% of that order is bound for making feedstock, mostly for pork, which last year required 74.5 million tons of corn--up 20% from 2009, according to China's Agriculture Ministry.''