The federal government just stopped serving pig products in federal prison — no more pork, ham, or bacon for 206,000 inmates.

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Althouse : October 9, 2015 The federal government just stopped serving pig products in federal prison — no more pork, ham, or bacon for 206,000 inmates.

You might instinctively cry: Must all go without because some have a religious scruple against eating pork?!

 

But the government says it's because a survey shows the prisoners don't likepork.

 

“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"...

 

“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....

 

Warner said pork is healthy and economical.... "Not to throw beef under the bus, but we cost a lot less than beef.”

 

Why don't they just admit they're doing it to accommodate religion and

[RandyM]

No bacon in prison may actually lower the recidivism rate!!!

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Prison pork prohibition pulled promptly

 

POSTED AT 1:01 PM ON OCTOBER 17, 2015 BY JAZZ SHAW

 

In a pig’s eye.

 

Last week we told you about the menu change at federal prisons where pork products disappeared from the table back on October 1st. What was up with that? At the time I wondered whether it had to do with pressure from religious groups who don’t eat pork or perhaps some sort of political shenanigans between the administration and the pork industry. We don’t have all of those answers yet, but the resulting uproar spurred somebody to action and the ban on pork in prison has apparently been ended… at least in part. (Washington Post)

 

After a week of controversy surrounding its abrupt removal of pork dishes from the national menu for federal inmates, the government did an about-face Thursday and put pork roast back on the prison bill of fare