Posted on 10/09/2015 6:00:40 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
The federal government has removed bacon, pork chops, ham, and all other pig products from the menu at its 122 federal prisons, impacting the nation’s 206,000 federal inmates.
The Washington Post reported that the ban went into effect when the new fiscal year began last week. According to the Bureau of Prisons, the decision was made after surveys revealed that inmates do not like the taste of pork. The bureau runs the country’s federal penitentiaries, which includes providing inmates with three meals per day.
“Why keep pushing food that people don’t want to eat? Pork has been the lowest-rated food by inmates for several years,” Edmond Ross, spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons, said. He added that pork products have also become more expensive.
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Prisoners? Bread an water sounds about right.
Yeah, especially the Southerners, Midwesterners and Southwesterners don't like pork.
Would you like to buy a bridge, cheap? It's in Brooklyn.
Kowtowing to muzzies? Haven’t we done that since a POTUS declared Islam to be a ROP? Aren’t we doing it still on a daily basis? If the country had not voted for OBama the US would have been declared racist even though Islam is not a race.
It’s EXPENSIVE!!!! Inmates should have protein mush and water.can’t do the time, don’t do the crime!
Turkey bacon is ‘mechanically separated turkey’ (stuff that used to be sold by the local neighborhood butcher many years ago as working dog food - (backs/fat/innards/etc), so turkey bacon may have more saturated fat than pork bacon and may have as much or more sodium and sodium nitrite than pork bacon.
Nutritionists would likely guide you towards pork bacon as the more nutritious choice between the two.
Comparing pork chops to turkey breast or legs, there is more sodium in turkey and there is 3-8g sugar in a serving of turkey. Chops have more saturated fat but they have more of the good, unsaturated fats which turkey doesn’t. Fats are what help a person feel full and saited. This is important when feeding a food-centric population. Hungry people are grumpy people. And finally, a serving of pork chop has more protein than turkey, so even at twice the price, pork still the healthier choice.
Which goes to show, either we’re being led by idiots, or we’re being talked to like we are idiots and there’s a different reason to ban pork besides cost. Like the number of muslim converts in the prison system of a Christian nation.
Give the others whatever's cheapest.
Save the real food for the USA.
I like that newfangled precooked bacon. A couple slices re-fried in a pan gives you extra-crispy bacon and bacon fat for frying your eggs in.
And I do regular bacon, but mostly for the fat that goes in a container for popcorn and flavoring other fried goodies, etc.
My nose would draw me to the hotel kitchen just in time to see big sheet pans of finished bacon coming out of the convection ovens. The only admonition cookie ever said was "Don't burn your mouth!"
Not a chance... ;)
This could reduce the crime rate significantly.
If you break the law, you go to prison.
And in prison.........there is no bacon!
I have no problem with this....then again they should just serve bread and water.
Go on, tell another whopper...
Next they will only source from Islamists so they are sure it is halal.
If inmates do not like the taste of pork, it seems to me like it’s time to freaking double down on pork, not scrap it. Since when do the inmates dictate the menu? Oh, I remember...since that time we made up a crap story about inmates not liking bacon to hide the fact that we’re placating muzzies.
Well, better in the klink not eating bacon than out of the klink not eating bacon, I guess.
Makes sense if the man in the White House is a muslim. By the way does Obama eat bacon, ham or any pig product?
They are already serving turkey-ham on sandwiches, beef biscuits, turkey-sausage, etc. The lunch ladies have to do cartwheels to accommodate the folks who should just bring lunch from home since they don’t like what is served. So now they buy even nastier foods to serve students. If you don’t like what is on the menu for the day, then bring your own food!
Hey...it’s PRISON. Why the hell are they getting bacon anyway?
Oh, yeah...When I have to do up a sheet pan of bacon at work, I always make a bit extra...for the boss...and me.
“I just ate some pulled pork at Big Pine, CA.”
Fairly desolate stretch of highway 395, you live there, or on your way up to Mammouth/Tahoe?
And you haven’t seen the incidents where the lunchroom monitor confiscated “non-approved” food sent from home?
Pack your own has been mentioned as not allowed at some schools.
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