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Military版 - Obama admin bans pork products from federal prisons
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Finally, the government has decided to eliminate pork — from the menu in
federal prisons
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.
Source: Federal Bureau of Prisons
The pork industry produces 24 billion pounds a year of pork products, from
tenderloin to bacon, its most popular product. About a quarter of that is
exported.
Warner said pork is healthy and economical, especially for a big buyer like
the federal government. “Not to throw beef under the bus, but we cost a lot
less than beef.”
“We’re nutritious,” he said. “A boneless pork chop or loin is a very
healthy alternative to lots of other foods. If you compare a pork tenderloin
to a rib eye steak and a boneless chicken breast, we come out pretty well.”
But Ross said that based on annual surveys of inmates’ food preferences,
pork lost its luster years ago. To wit: In the last two years, the federal
prison menu dropped to just two pork products, he said.
“And we were paying more than what we’d like to pay,” Ross said.
“People are more health conscious these days,” he said. “Some people
choose to be vegetarian or vegan. That’s their preference.” As of last
week, the prison menu had added an “economically viable” turkey bacon
substitute.
Incarcerated pork lovers still have an option: The prison commissary, a
convenience store that sells packaged pork rinds and precooked bacon. But
they have to pay.
Observant Muslims and Jews are forbidden to eat pork, and the prison system
has long made accommodations for them by providing alternatives to pork and
halal and kosher foods. Ross declined to say whether there has been an
increase in Muslim or Jewish inmates in recent years and whether that may
have factored into the survey responses.
“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.”
Hooper predicted that anti-Islam groups would spin the decision into a case
of the federal government acting under pressure from Muslims.
“This is just the kind of thing that drives them crazy,” he said. “It
will stoke the fires of Islamophobia based on the usual conspiracy theories.
O*******d
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牢犯要吃牛排。
h*******u
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快上龙虾

【在 O*******d 的大作中提到】
: 牢犯要吃牛排。
r*****1
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哪儿的消息,怎么看到的都是右逼网站?
不可信
s*****r
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Well that guy in silence of the lamb wanted a second meal and it must be
lamb chop. You can't afford food? Go rob a meat shop and you will get what
will want no matter what is the outcome.
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