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."

[OldPossum]

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

That's the problem. We've always had these people in our midst, i.e., those who know better than we do, and in this case, those who begrudge others having a good time. They will never go away.

[JimRed]

Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine is an Islamic front group? Who knew? < /sarc >

[Terry L Smith]

I had some bacon-wrapped Ball Park brats yesterday, with some sauerkraut, German potato salad, Bush bbq’d beans, some home-made chips, and the last burger in the box from Sam’s.

I’m an American! My fave quick lunch at the Thai airbase, was a cart footlong hotdog with toppings and a bottle of chocolate milk, when I would walk over to the Post Office/Bx/bank, and walk back to the supply compound.

Give up an institution because of some busybodies who think that they know what’s good for me?

k.m.a.!!!