Posted on 04/17/2015 6:46:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
In perhaps the oddest nonprofit synergy since the not-especially-health-conscious 7-Eleven baked pink ribbon-shaped donuts for Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is buddying up with 82-year-old Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio to get the entire US prison system to serve meat-less meals to inmates.
Yes, that would be the same Joe Arpaio who only yesterday lost a racial profiling case that determined that his office disproportionately targets Latinos for traffic stops, the same Joe Arpaio who’s staunch support for the anti-immigrant SB1070 led San Francisco’s city government to boycott of the entire state of Arizona for a time, and the same Joe Arpaio who uses his cruel mistreatment of prisoners to demagogue his way to re-election again and again in law-and-order Phoenix. This time, Arpaio is linking arms with none other than Pamela Anderson, because in 2013 the Maricopa County jail system went meat-free, making Arpaio a humanitarian in PETA’s eyes. As Think Progress observed, Arpaio’s commitment to animal welfare seems fairly minimal compared to his lust for depriving his inmates of daily necessities (and saving taxpayers money). Most individuals Arpaio’s office oversees are low-level offenders awaiting trial, or immigrants housed in an outdoor tent city, yet they’re expected to pay for their own meals while incarcerated.
Further, according to Think Progress, a Fox affiliate toured the factory that produces the inmates’ food, and found brown carrots and soy that looked like wood chips, something Arpaio dismissed as nothing more than harmless dirt. (Simpsons fans may remember Principal Skinner responding to Mrs. Krabappel’s accusation that she could “taste the newsprint” in the cafeteria lunch by saying it provided “essential inks.”)
Meanwhile, whatever savings the sheriff might have racked up through his campaign of unconstitutional deprivation will go to the $21.9 million payout in the racial profiling case. This is the man whom PETA is hailing as a hero in their quixotic campaign to reduce meat consumption.
So politics have made strange bedfellows once again. “America’s Toughest Sheriff” has also been known to force inmates to wear pink underwear, which does open up a potential partnership with the Komen Foundation down the line.
What a great President Joe would make.
Notorious? Really?
WTH?
Thinner Bologna sandwiches
I thought Sheriff Joe only fed PB&Js to his ‘guests’ for three squares a day.
Wed love to offer them less meat, but we cant get the cows to go on a diet!
No he gives them mystery food loafs, unless some court somewhere told him to stop.
If he’s not notorious among criminals, he’s doing something wrong.
I was in for 24hrs once. It was pb, an orange and potable bread the drink du jour was one of those nickel kool aid cups.
Let them eat wood chips.. I like it!
No he wouldn’t. The dude is a grandstanding a$$.
Huh? Meat is not a “necessity”. Lots of us stay very healthy without it. Actually, I would argue, healthier.
No he isn’t Sean. He was forced into standing up for the Constitution and the Rule of Law.
You don’t like that.
He is the High Sheriff of Maricopa County.
You probably hate that as well.
No leadership = anarchy
PET Assasins
Last time I checked, doughnuts are fried, not baked, moron. And what's odd about doughnuts for a health-related charity? Are you suggesting that doughnuts are so toxic that health-conscious people would never ingest even one? I'm sure 7-11 wasn't suggesting anyone go on a doughnut-only diet.
Your post is about as stupid as they come.
I presume you would like some jackass liberal to run Maricopa County into the dust.
When the inmates become cannibals, who is responsible?
PETA you think these thugs are picky as to where they get their protein?
>>>No he wouldn’t. The dude is a grandstanding a$$<<<
All I know is what I read in the Funny Papers, and FR.
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