Obama Administration’s Ban on Pork Products at Federal Prisons

gatewaypundit ^ | Oct 10th, 2015 1:01 pm | Jim Hoft

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CAIR Cheers Obama Administration’s Ban on Pork Products at Federal Prisons

Jim Hoft Oct 10th, 2015 1:01 pm 234 Comments

The Obama administration announced this week it would ban pork products including ham, bacon, pork links, and chops from all federal prisons.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations cheered the news this week.
The Washington Post reported:

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…

…“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.”

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Beyond mere fake news.

[Buttons12]

No pork in prisons? Isn’t there something in the Bill of Rights preventing this kind of abuse?

[pangaea6]

If it ticks off CAIR and mooselimbs that reversal should be on Trumps day 1 list

[laxcoach]

Yeah I’m quite sure that bacon rates pretty low in surveys /sarc

[dandiegirl]

The Muzzies don’t have to eat it but why deprive the other prisoners of their bacon. Obama’s last act in favor of his fellow Muslims. I hope Trump reverses this ASAP.

[386wt]

Porking is still ok though.

[Timpanagos1]

Let them eat pork.

[GraceG]

What about all the non-muslim prisoners who like ham and bacon... well I guess screw them then...

[beethovenfan]

Trump should mandate pork as the ONLY meat at federal prisons.

[Timpanagos1]

“The Muzzies don’t have to eat it but why deprive the other prisoners of their bacon.”

Because they are convicted felons.

They don’t have a menu presented to them when they are seated for dinner.

[Timpanagos1]

“What about all the non-muslim prisoners who like ham and bacon... well I guess screw them then...”

If they liked ham and bacon so much, they should not have become criminals.

[Phil DiBasquette]

Trump could be a friend to pork!

[GraceG]

[ If it ticks off CAIR and mooselimbs that reversal should be on Trumps day 1 list ]

Here is how I would frame the argument to CAIR....

“Well Islam is such a peaceful religion there will be no need to ban pork in prisons since all those peaceful muslims will never end up in prison anyways so this is a complete non-issue.

Unless you want to admit that enough Muslims will end up in prison that they will end up as a majority of prisons in which cause using democracy rules when the population in prison reaches 51% we may consider banning pork in prison. but even after this, since they are in prison they aren’t Islamic since Islam is so danged peaceful, so this is a non-issue anyways... right? “

[GraceG]

[ “What about all the non-muslim prisoners who like ham and bacon... well I guess screw them then...”

If they liked ham and bacon so much, they should not have become criminals. ]

And if the Muslims don’t want to skip a meal with pork in it in prison a few times a week they should not commit crimes either :)

[GraceG]

[ Trump should mandate pork as the ONLY meat at federal prisons. ]

Nah, just mandate they use the cheapest meat available.

But honestly, I would rather they feed the prisoners nothing but tofu and soy curds. Enough natural estrogen in those foods to take the fight right out of ‘em. I wonder if you could make a “loaf” out of the left overs of making soy diesel that could qualify as food....

Prison food should be bland, safe, though undesirable, but provide enough nutrition to maintain a reasonable amount of health.

[MtnClimber]

Trump should mandate pork as the ONLY meat at federal prisons.

I agree. Muslims are such a problem we should not make it easy for them to be here where they think non-muslims should be killed. Any muslim convicted of a crime should only get pork and they are free to refuse to eat.

[Snickering Hound]

I’m good with them eating nutraloaf.

[Cold Heart]

I just left a post dated July 17th, 2014
This one is Oct 10th 2015 (The pork thing was rescinded before it started)

[Lee25]

Is this real? Unbelievable