Posted on 10/10/2015 7:16:03 AM PDT by george76
The federal Bureau of Prisons, a subdivision of President Barack Obama's Justice Department, has banished all pork products from the menus in all federal prisons ...
The government says it made the decision to do this because a survey showed that inmates do not like eating pork products.
The Council on American-Islamic relations said we welcome the move by the government to deny pork to prisoners, but warned that it might spark Islamophobia.
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They just dont like the taste of pork .
The National Pork Producers Council isnt buying it. 'I find it hard to believe that a survey would have found a majority of any population saying, No thanks, I dont want any bacon,' said Dave Warner, a spokesman for the Washington-based trade association, which represents the nations hog farmers.
CAIR told the Post that banning pork in federal prisons would accommodate Muslim prisoners:
In general we welcome the change because its facilitating the accommodation of Muslim inmates, said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
Apparently this is not true anymore...
Although I have not been able to find the executive order...there may not be one..and I don’t know any federal prisoners personally, it is quite possible and easy to shift the entire diet to kosher and thus appease the Muslims, as they both, Muslims and Jews, derive their diets from the same source.
yes, but that’s 2012.
Kosher food and cooking and eating is unbelievably expensive compared to conventional cooking, or even compared to halal, whose restrictions are quite minimal.
Here’s one explanation:
http://forward.com/news/155363/not-just-jews-eat-kosher-food-in-prison/
Well, I’m not going to dismiss the CNS report without some reason to do so.
I note in my searching that the menus for 2012, 2013, 2014 are posted but not the 2015. There are also some change stories that my security won’t allow me to access so before I get my computer dirty, I am going to wait and maybe this will get fleshed out at some point.
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As to the expense, I might remind you of the diets being served at GITMO...
Expense for Muslin outreach does not seem to matter anymore..
I need a beer.....lol
Banning pork does not make a diet kosher.
From the source (2012):
http://forward.com/news/155363/not-just-jews-eat-kosher-food-in-prison/
...there are 50-plus departments of corrections around the country housing some 1.4 million people...
...Jews, according to one estimate, make up just one-sixth or about 4,000 of the 24,000 inmates who eat kosher food in American prisons...
...In the federal corrections system, there are some 4,127 individuals receiving a so-called Certified Religious Diet out of a total of 217,000 inmates, or about 2% of the population...
...in California, for instance, Jewish chaplains oversee kosher programs at the states prisons, feeding kosher meals to about 800 people out of about 140,000 or about 0.6% of inmates. California has a strict policy against allowing non-Jewish prisoners to access kosher food...
Ham smothered in cloves and brown sugar
You need to try mustard sauce on the ham.
I had a Steward teach me how to make mustard sauce back in 63 while I was cook aboard the USS Taluga.
Mustard, vinegar, brown sugar along with the usual pumpkin pie spices. I really rarely try to fix it anymore but when I was 20 years younger everyone loved it.
I believe the Lord put the kibosh on this 2000 years ago.
Nope but it's a common misunderstanding and a long tradition.
Yes, I have a niece who can't eat pork because it causes malaria flareups.
The God of the OT put the kibosh on all sorts of things.
Then Jesus came along and said, “TL;DR.” And that was that.
This is a joke, right?
don’t agree with this, but then again we should just go ahead and cut meat out of all prison menus. strict vegan diet as punishment for being a criminal sounds good. spinach and beans.
Why wouldn’t he ban pork? His people can’t eat it. (But can they have pork suppositories?)
This is a tough one.... Obammy banning pork because he’s a muzzy...vs why are we feeding prisoners ham and bacon. How about we come to a compromise and just give them spam. The other meat.
Combine PING! and DANG!
What about all the Po Boys what LOVE them some Poke and Beans??
Mustard is a recent item on my “good” list. I will have to try it your way next time. Thank you!
Could you flesh that out, a bit?
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