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Activists: ‘Ban Bacon from Ballparks,’ ‘Deadly as Smoking’
Cybercast News Service ^ | May 23, 2014 - 3:12 PM | Craig Bannister

Posted on 05/24/2014 1:45:40 PM PDT by Olog-hai

An anti-meat activist group is urging owners of a minor-league baseball team to “stop glorifying bacon” via its bacon-themed uniform, merchandise and “smell the change” slogan.

PCRM (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine) has erected a billboard a mile from the Allentown Iron Pigs’ ballpark, comparing bacon to cigarettes and declaring: “Keep Kids Safe: Ban Bacon from Ballparks.” […]

It also evokes the cigarette analogy: “The team would never pass out free cartons of cigarettes to the children of the LeHigh Valley, yet they are providing open access to bacon crumbles and turning a family-friendly event into a public health crisis.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Local News; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: allentownironpigs; bacon; ballparks; cancer; falseanalogy; minorleague; pcrm; scaretactics
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To: FlingWingFlyer

And all of them start out as minority parties. And it’s alway about ‘’the children’’.


21 posted on 05/24/2014 2:09:29 PM PDT by jmacusa
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To: Olog-hai
The team would never pass out free cartons of cigarettes to the children

Reminds me... I've got a grand-daughter with a birthday coming up next month. What brand of cigarettes should I get a 3 year old?

Maybe I'll just get her some bacon instead. She loves bacon.

/johnny

22 posted on 05/24/2014 2:11:56 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: windcliff

“Hot dog!”


23 posted on 05/24/2014 2:13:14 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Olog-hai

24 posted on 05/24/2014 2:13:28 PM PDT by RPTMS (I know you're a nincompoop, and I strongly suspect you of being a scalawag!)
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To: Veggie Todd

Well he should be punished for making Footloose.


25 posted on 05/24/2014 2:16:55 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: Olog-hai

Where’s a good old fashioned gang-land drive-by when you really need one?


26 posted on 05/24/2014 2:17:54 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (Tri nornar eg bir. Binde til rota...)
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To: Olog-hai

27 posted on 05/24/2014 2:18:41 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Olog-hai
I suppose it would be too much to ask for them to produce a clinical study proving their contention?
28 posted on 05/24/2014 2:19:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: Olog-hai

My dad's generation had their own brands of cigarettes for kids.

29 posted on 05/24/2014 2:22:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: Don Corleone

The lack of meat-eating makes them nutritionally deficient and insane.


30 posted on 05/24/2014 2:30:28 PM PDT by Salamander (It's a cult and they worship blue oysters!)
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To: Olog-hai
It's for da chillun.

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31 posted on 05/24/2014 2:36:37 PM PDT by TrueKnightGalahad (When you´re racing, it’s life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.)
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To: Olog-hai
I'll just grow my own.

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32 posted on 05/24/2014 2:39:09 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: Olog-hai

Yeah, great idea. Lets ban anything that might give anyone, anywhere a bit of fun or pleasure. We can’t let people just deciding by themselves what they want to enjoy.


33 posted on 05/24/2014 2:47:18 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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To: Olog-hai
Just checked their website....this is clearly an organization of “physicians” that Osama Obama,Bernie Sanders and Bill Ayers would love.Filled with “no animal testing” stuff.I think you can imagine the rest.
34 posted on 05/24/2014 3:12:46 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: Olog-hai

Better idea: Ban activists from ball parks.


35 posted on 05/24/2014 3:14:03 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Olog-hai
H.L. Mencken:

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

This is one of those times!!!

36 posted on 05/24/2014 3:15:19 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: Olog-hai
PCRM (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine) has erected a billboard a mile from the Allentown Iron Pigs’ ballpark, comparing bacon to cigarettes and declaring: “Keep Kids Safe: Ban Bacon from Ballparks.”

Somebody should sue them and have them prove their statement.

37 posted on 05/24/2014 3:17:57 PM PDT by oldbrowser (This looks like a make it or break it point for America.)
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To: Olog-hai

“LeHigh Valley” huh? Eat more bacon, more beef, etc and your brain won’t rot. It’s called “Lehigh Valley” you dumb rotten brain.


38 posted on 05/24/2014 3:19:54 PM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party)
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To: Olog-hai
Good Grief!


40 posted on 05/24/2014 3:33:07 PM PDT by laweeks
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