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Activists: ‘Ban Bacon from Ballparks,’ ‘Deadly as Smoking’
Cybercast News Service ^
| May 23, 2014 - 3:12 PM
| Craig Bannister
Posted on 05/24/2014 1:45:40 PM PDT by 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. [
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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.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
TOPICS: Food; Local News; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: allentownironpigs; bacon; ballparks; cancer; falseanalogy; minorleague; pcrm; scaretactics
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To: FlingWingFlyer
And all of them start out as minority parties. And it’s alway about ‘’the children’’.
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posted on
05/24/2014 2:09:29 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
To: Olog-hai
The team would never pass out free cartons of cigarettes to the childrenReminds me... I've got a grand-daughter with a birthday coming up next month. What brand of cigarettes should I get a 3 year old?
Maybe I'll just get her some bacon instead. She loves bacon.
/johnny
To: windcliff
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posted on
05/24/2014 2:13:14 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
05/24/2014 2:13:28 PM PDT
by
RPTMS
(I know you're a nincompoop, and I strongly suspect you of being a scalawag!)
To: Veggie Todd
Well he should be punished for making Footloose.
To: Olog-hai
Where’s a good old fashioned gang-land drive-by when you really need one?
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posted on
05/24/2014 2:17:54 PM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(Tri nornar eg bir. Binde til rota...)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
05/24/2014 2:18:41 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: Olog-hai
I suppose it would be too much to ask for them to produce a clinical study proving their contention?
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posted on
05/24/2014 2:19:32 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
To: Olog-hai
My dad's generation had their own brands of cigarettes for kids.
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posted on
05/24/2014 2:22:52 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
To: Don Corleone
The lack of meat-eating makes them nutritionally deficient and insane.
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posted on
05/24/2014 2:30:28 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(It's a cult and they worship blue oysters!)
To: Olog-hai
It's for da chillun.
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posted on
05/24/2014 2:36:37 PM PDT
by
TrueKnightGalahad
(When you´re racing, it’s life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.)
To: Olog-hai
I'll just grow my own.
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posted on
05/24/2014 2:39:09 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin.)
To: Olog-hai
Yeah, great idea. Lets ban anything that might give anyone, anywhere a bit of fun or pleasure. We can’t let people just deciding by themselves what they want to enjoy.
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posted on
05/24/2014 2:47:18 PM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
To: Olog-hai
Just checked their website....this is clearly an organization of “physicians” that Osama Obama,Bernie Sanders and Bill Ayers would love.Filled with “no animal testing” stuff.I think you can imagine the rest.
To: Olog-hai
Better idea: Ban activists from ball parks.
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posted on
05/24/2014 3:14:03 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Olog-hai
H.L. Mencken:
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
This is one of those times!!!
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posted on
05/24/2014 3:15:19 PM PDT
by
Doomonyou
(Let them eat Lead.)
To: Olog-hai
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. Somebody should sue them and have them prove their statement.
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posted on
05/24/2014 3:17:57 PM PDT
by
oldbrowser
(This looks like a make it or break it point for America.)
To: Olog-hai
“LeHigh Valley” huh? Eat more bacon, more beef, etc and your brain won’t rot. It’s called “Lehigh Valley” you dumb rotten brain.
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posted on
05/24/2014 3:19:54 PM PDT
by
Ray76
(True change requires true change - A Second Party)
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To: Olog-hai
Good Grief!
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posted on
05/24/2014 3:33:07 PM PDT
by
laweeks
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