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.” …
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Personally, I’m concerned about second hand bacon. It’s quite aromatic and its users should be segregated when using it. I need a big grant to study the effects of SHB, BLTs, etc. It’s for the children.
I say they SHOULD start handing out cigarettes then say “Happy now?”
Bacon for the world!
Can’t these people just leave us alone? It’s time to tell them to buzz off.
I’d say something stronger than that, involving a physically impossible act.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm....
Bacon
If smoking is deadly, and bacon is deadly, smoked-bacon must be off-the-charts lethal.
Bacon makes everything better.
You really think so? There have been so many things I thought the Nanny state liberals wouldn’t be able to get away with - but have. I see them taking away all of our freedoms on the path we are currently on - hopefully we can alter that path.
>>You really think so? There have been so many things I thought the Nanny state liberals wouldn’t be able to get away with - but have. I see them taking away all of our freedoms on the path we are currently on - hopefully we can alter that path.
Oh yes. Absolutely. Bacon is the one line they shall not cross!! We will make a new Gadsden flag with the snake being made of delicious bacon. ;-)
The solution here would be to ban left-wing know-it-all nanny state quacks from minor league ballparks.
Dumb as?
At least new children to Abraham could be raised up out of a box of rocks.
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