Activists: ‘Ban Bacon from Ballparks,’ ‘Deadly as Smoking’

Cybercast News Service ^ | May 23, 2014 - 3:12 PM | Craig Bannister

[Olog-hai]

An anti-meat activist group is urging owners of a minor-league baseball team to “stop glorifying bacon” via its bacon-themed uniform, merchandise and “smell the change” slogan.

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.” […]

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.” …

[babble-on]

you can have my bacon when you pry it from my greasy dead hands!

[unixfox]

These people need to STFU already.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Communism, Nazism and Liberalism are all mental defects.

[workerbee]

Open access to bacon crumbles? Intriguing.

[andyk]

I’m going to begin the cure on three bellies this weekend - one pork, and two lamb. Yum.

[P.O.E.]

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If memory serves, didn't this same park change the mascot's name from "Porky", deeming it insensitive to Hispanics or something?

[Vaquero]

Ban weenies from ball parks. Not hot dogs, but weenies

[JohnBrowdie]

they’re after your bacon precisely because they successfully (all but) banned my cigarettes. people just didn’t think that through. it was just stupid to think the nutjob control freaks would stop there — or anywhere, for that matter.

they’ll be after your chocolate next.

[VTenigma]

Ban the nanny statists, I’m so sick of this sh, er stuff.

[rawcatslyentist]

Ban guns, ban bacon?

Sounds like they're begging for a mooslime invasion!

[real saxophonist]

I have a pair of these.

They're cycling socks, but they'll work in the ballpark as well.

[GladesGuru]

Banning bacon!

That is ‘A Ban too far’.

[Don Corleone]

These people must live very depressing lives. They never are happy about anything.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

These bastards won’t be satisfied until NOBODY ANYWHERE is enjoying life. Their objective is equal misery for all.

[Huskrrrr]

Bacon bad/abortion good?

[Big Mack]

You love bacon, or you are wrong!

[Veggie Todd]

Kevin Bacon should be allowed to visit any ballpark he wants. Unless, of course, he's made some kind of racial comment.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

I wish Americans had the spiritual strength to get these people, strip them naked, then stuff bacon bits into various bodily orifices. Lord! I am sick of these people and sick of those that give them publicity. Such nonsense really has to be stopped.

[Bryanw92]

Oh yeah liberals...ban bacon. Please ban bacon. You can take our freedom, but when you mess with the bacon, you will find yourselves on the business end of a pitchfork real fast!