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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.” […]

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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1 posted on 05/24/2014 1:45:40 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

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


2 posted on 05/24/2014 1:46:45 PM PDT by babble-on
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To: Olog-hai

These people need to STFU already.


3 posted on 05/24/2014 1:47:02 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Olog-hai

Communism, Nazism and Liberalism are all mental defects.


4 posted on 05/24/2014 1:47:24 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: Olog-hai

Open access to bacon crumbles? Intriguing.


5 posted on 05/24/2014 1:47:38 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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To: Olog-hai

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


6 posted on 05/24/2014 1:47:54 PM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: Olog-hai; fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; South Hawthorne; ...
PA Ping!

If you see posts of interest to Pennsylvanians, please ping me.

Thanks!

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

7 posted on 05/24/2014 1:48:47 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Olog-hai

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


8 posted on 05/24/2014 1:50:13 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Olog-hai

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.


9 posted on 05/24/2014 1:52:51 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: Olog-hai

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


10 posted on 05/24/2014 1:55:04 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Olog-hai
Ban guns, ban bacon?

Sounds like they're begging for a mooslime invasion!

11 posted on 05/24/2014 1:55:42 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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I have a pair of these.

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

12 posted on 05/24/2014 1:58:00 PM PDT by real saxophonist (Disharmonious & Unmutual)
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To: Olog-hai

Banning bacon!

That is ‘A Ban too far’.


13 posted on 05/24/2014 1:58:12 PM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est - because of what Islam is and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: Olog-hai

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


14 posted on 05/24/2014 1:59:27 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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These bastards won’t be satisfied until NOBODY ANYWHERE is enjoying life. Their objective is equal misery for all.


15 posted on 05/24/2014 2:01:09 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Bacon bad/abortion good?


16 posted on 05/24/2014 2:03:06 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Olog-hai

You love bacon, or you are wrong!


17 posted on 05/24/2014 2:06:18 PM PDT by Big Mack (I love this country. ItÂ’s the government that scares the crap out of me)
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To: Olog-hai
Kevin Bacon should be allowed to visit any ballpark he wants. Unless, of course, he's made some kind of racial comment.


18 posted on 05/24/2014 2:06:32 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: Olog-hai
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.
19 posted on 05/24/2014 2:07:50 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Olog-hai

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!


20 posted on 05/24/2014 2:09:17 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyranni)
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