Posted on 10/12/2015 12:02:24 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The nation’s pork producers are in an uproar after the federal government abruptly removed bacon, pork chops, pork links, ham and all other pig products from the national menu for 206,000 federal inmates.
The ban started with the new fiscal year last week.
The Bureau of Prisons, which is responsible for running 122 federal penitentiaries and feeding their inmates three meals a day, said the decision was based on a survey of prisoners’ food preferences:
They just don’t like the taste of pork.
“Why keep pushing food that people don’t want to eat?” asked Edmond Ross, a spokesman for the prison bureau. “Pork has been the lowest-rated food by inmates for several years,” It also apparently got more expensive for the government to buy, although he did not provide specifics.
The National Pork Producers Council isn’t buying it. “I find it hard to believe that a survey would have found a majority of any population saying, ‘No thanks, I don’t want any bacon,'” said Dave Warner, a spokesman for the Washington-based trade association, which represents the nation’s hog farmers.
“We’re going to find out how this came about and go from there,” Warner said. “We wouldn’t rule out any options to resolve this.” He said the association “is still formulating our strategy” to reverse the prison decision, which the industry first learned about Monday when the Fort Worth Star-Telegram called for comment.
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No more bacon? Well that should reduce the prison population in short order.
Obama really likes riots.
Riiiiiiight, most didn’t like the taste of bacon. OK....yeah. Sharia for all. World wide caliphate continues without a sign of slowing down or stopping.
Bacon is too good to be wasted on prisoners.
yes but for the prisoners there are jowels, feet , and tripe
It smells fishy to me. Most everyone loves bacon except thos Mohammad people.
getting the menu ready for him to check in?
When bacon is banned....only outlaws will have it
More bacon and pork products for the rest of us....sounds good to me!!!
Too bad the same cannot be done for Congress. Prohibiting that institution from access to any pork would be a clearly positive step.
But prisoners? The pork should DEFINITELY stay on the menu, if only to p*ss off the Muslims. Just another reason they should behave well enough never to land in prison.
Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Carolina....
All solidly in the GOP column next time.
Thanks, Obama!
The National Pork Producers Council isn’t buying it. “I find it hard to believe that a survey would have found a majority of any population saying, ‘No thanks, I don’t want any bacon,’” ...
Amen to that.
And Obama claims to be a Christian, not a Muslim.
In fact, libs, for some reason, lose their freaking minds when he is “accused” ob being a Muslim.
He also claims to be an American and love America.
BS prisoners at California prisoners love pork,especially bacon and it is much cheaper than beef.
WGARA what the prisoners want. What do the taxpayers want to feed them is the issue.
I remember being a freshman in high school when Jimmy Carter bailed out the turkey farmers.
All of that surplus turkey went into the school lunch program. We ate some form of processed, reconstituted turkey product every day for over a year.
Now I know the answer is “cause they wouldn’t give it to prisoners”.
If it’s a question of money then I presume they’re not getting any beef.
Otherwise...
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