Coming Soon: Good Deals On Pork?

This will be bad news for pork producers if it is confirmed:

Pigs in Minnesota may have tested positive for the H1N1 virus in a preliminary test, the first potential U.S. cases in swine.

Agriculture Department officials cautioned that further tests were needed to confirm that the pigs had been infected with H1N1. Officials say that the pigs did not exhibit signs of sickness and may have been exposed to a group of children who had contracted the swine flu virus.

I already have a stocked freezer from reduced price and two-for-one sales at the local grocery earlier this week. If history is any guide, if H1N1 is confirmed I'll bet pork sales will plummet, no matter how strenuously officials say there is no danger. I love getting the deals, but an unstable pork industry will be bad for consumers in the long run. I hope this turns out to be a false positive.