Author Topic: Stay out of the Federal pen: they took bacon off the menu!  (Read 1204 times)

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Stay out of the Federal pen: they took bacon off the menu!
« on: October 10, 2015, 03:16:59 PM »
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20151010/NEWS02/151019918/Federal-prisons-to-kick-pork-off-the-menu

I predict a drop in the number of APS members being sent to the Federal pen.  Perhaps they will start to have bacon smuggling.
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Re: Stay out of the Federal pen: they took bacon off the menu!
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2015, 03:20:57 PM »
Without reading the story I am going to guess the reason is because Muslims don't eat pork.
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Re: Stay out of the Federal pen: they took bacon off the menu!
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2015, 03:28:43 PM »
Without reading the story I am going to guess the reason is because Muslims don't eat pork.

Yup.  They also mentioned Jews, but it's obvious the real reason is just Muslim intolerance:
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The prison system has long made accommodations for Muslims and Jews by providing alternatives to pork and halal and kosher foods. Ross declined to say whether there has been an increase in Muslim or Jewish inmates in recent years and whether that may have factored into the survey responses.
“In general we welcome the change because it’s facilitating the accommodation of Muslim inmates,” said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the country’s largest Muslim civil rights advocacy group. “We hope it’s not an indication of an increasing number of Muslims in the prison system.”

A Jew is not going to be offended by a Gentile eating pork.
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Re: Stay out of the Federal pen: they took bacon off the menu!
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2015, 03:29:15 PM »
Textured soy product (Soylent brown, Soylent Yellow) has been pretty much standard in state prisons for some time.

First they replaced green bologna, then beef, with turkey, and then replaced textured turkey product with Soylent.

What really sucks is that 5 of our farms raise cattle and swine to feedlot stage and then sell it for funds to buy Soylent.

And yes, a large component of the reason to go to Soylent was to be able to eliminate special Halal and Kosher dietary lines.  Now those special diets are only needed for Ramadan/Passover and come from frozen meals.

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Re: Stay out of the Federal pen: they took bacon off the menu!
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2015, 03:49:50 PM »
Since soy products cause man boobs, like real boobs...I'm kosher with that being served in prison.
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Re: Stay out of the Federal pen: they took bacon off the menu!
« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2015, 03:50:41 PM »
Why have we been wasting precious bacon on convicts?  :facepalm:

On the other hand, I must insist on bacon for those awaiting trial. Innocent until proven not-bacon-worthy.
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Re: Stay out of the Federal pen: they took bacon off the menu!
« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2015, 05:55:06 PM »
Since soy products cause man boobs, like real boobs...I'm kosher with that being served in prison.

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Re: Stay out of the Federal pen: they took bacon off the menu!
« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2015, 07:24:04 PM »
Why have we been wasting precious bacon on convicts?  :facepalm:

Because it's so much cheaper than beef.  Or even a decent serving of chicken.
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Re: Stay out of the Federal pen: they took bacon off the menu!
« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2015, 08:14:59 PM »
Meh.   

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Re: Stay out of the Federal pen: they took bacon off the menu!
« Reply #10 on: October 17, 2015, 02:03:50 PM »
Prison pork (probably and all I'd want to pay for):


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Re: Stay out of the Federal pen: they took bacon off the menu!
« Reply #11 on: October 17, 2015, 06:11:14 PM »
Sounds like the Nation of Islam at work.
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Re: Stay out of the Federal pen: they took bacon off the menu!
« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2015, 06:14:06 PM »
Because it's so much cheaper than beef.  Or even a decent serving of chicken.

Is it still? Because didn't pork prices go up with that weird disease killing off all the pigs?
http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/meat-price-spreads.aspx
Obviously, this only accounts for the past few months, but it looks like chicken is the cheapest.
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Re: Stay out of the Federal pen: they took bacon off the menu!
« Reply #13 on: October 17, 2015, 06:54:46 PM »
Is it still? Because didn't pork prices go up with that weird disease killing off all the pigs?
http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/meat-price-spreads.aspx
Obviously, this only accounts for the past few months, but it looks like chicken is the cheapest.

Per ounce chicken and turkey are cheaper.  But if you can give them 2 slices of sorry-ass bacon or a sliver of ham, that's still cheaper than a serving of chicken.  (at least I think it is)

I haven't heard of the new pig disease.  (binging it now)  Eww, "Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea".
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