You do realize that a large majority of starving Africans would find your notion of feeding them pork disgusting and morally offensive right? That's pretty insensitive of you. ;) ...and I already asked my local deli to save me any prosciutto that is past it's sell by date. Wouldn't want it to end up in a landfill!

I know, I was just teasing you. :) I agree, there is an obscene amount of food wasted every day in far too many places around the world. It's a shame we can't move food around better to get it to people who need it before it goes bad or just get it to them at all.

My thought was that it's far more sustainable to make torches from pork than iron if they work. It's like locavore industry.

Totally possible. I'd like to see the relative cost across the board from carbon footprint to $$ and pollution comparing pork to iron and then compare the lbs of pork needed to the lbs of iron needed for a torch. My guess is it's still better to use pork. Smelting, casting, mining and shipping are pretty big polluters compared to hog farming but you never know. I'd rather have more hog farms than foundries and mining runoff pools contaminated with heavy metals. I think I'll take the hog farms over industrial waste and air pollution as well. Still, I could be totally off base. I'm sure for most applications the bacon torch won't hold up anyway.

lol

Yeah, like next weekend in my backyard. :)