Activists: 'Ban Bacon from Ballparks,' 'Deadly as Smoking'

http://cnsnews.com/ ^ | 05/26/2014 | Craig Bannister

[massmike]

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."

The group has also sent letters to the Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski and the Pigs' owners, Joseph Finley and Craig Stein. One letter calls for the mayor's help "asking the Iron Pigs to stop glorifying bacon."

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."

PCRM continued the cigarette theme in its letter to the team's owners letter to the team's owners:

"Consuming bacon and other processed meat products can be as deadly as smoking."

"When you glorify bacon, you're really glorifying cancer."

The letter also rebukes the team for "making headlines and selling out bacon-themed hats, jerseys, and pants."

[Foolsgold]

[grimalkin]

Oh, FFS. Nanny-ism strikes again.

Can you imagine what it would be like to live with these people? They must torture everyone around them.

[Captain7seas]

I like bacon. I like pork chops. I like pigs feet. If this OFFENDS you. Pound Sand!

[MaxMax]

Oh you should see their perfect homes. Maximum Anal.

[CrazyIvan]

From my cold dead greasy hands!

[Drango]

Don't ban Kevin!

[Lx]

Great, yet another group like “Center for Science in the Public Interest” of Fettuccine Alfredo is heart attack on a plate fame.
These fascists always have an appeal to authority in their name and actions.
I wonder what the ratio of lawyers VS Doctors is in both groups?

[Jack Hydrazine]

It sure would be nice to know who these doctors are and their email addresses.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

..... “Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine”. .....

Translation: Nanny state Marxists.

[Hugin]

"Bacon tastes good. Pork chops taste good."

[Busko]

The goose steppers for the left and all of the anti American ideologues.

[jocon307]

“I knew this was going to happen once they started legalizing gay marriage and marijuana.”

Let’s get down to root causes, this nonsense is all clearly the fault of Henry VII.

And, probably, the Joooos.

[hoagy62]

As I’ve said once, and I’ll say it again: People who want to ban bacon can perform an impossible physical act on themselves.

[Rebelbase]

"When you glorify bacon the nanny-state, you're really glorifying cancer Marxism."

[AnotherUnixGeek]

One letter calls for the mayor's help "asking the Iron Pigs to stop glorifying bacon."

Bacon doesn't need any glorification - it's already one of the world's finest foods and one of mankind's greatest inventions.

And the nagging control-freak drudges of the Left do not get to impose mandatory health care on everyone and then use that as an excuse to meddle in what people decide to eat.

[miss marmelstein]

Health Mullahs.

[jonrick46]

Hotdogs? Bacon? Hamburger? Nachos? Wait until they ban the bun. Already there is chatter about the harmful effects of carbohydrates. Soon, all you will get is tofu and veggies. Bon Appétit!

[octex]

I suppose these nuts would want the baseball team in Grand Prairie TX to change their name from the Air Hogs.

[Marie]

These people must lie awake at night worrying that somewhere, somebody is having a good time.

[BuffaloJack]

I tried the chocolate covered bacon strips about 10 days ago. They were delicious.