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发帖数: 16484 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: wep (买不到鸡蛋了！), 信区: Military
标 题: Obama admin bans pork products from federal prisons
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Oct 12 11:57:43 2015, 美东)
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.
” | b*****e
发帖数: 53215 | 2 联邦监狱才关了20万人啊 好像不符合我帝牢饭大国的形象
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: 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
: 发信人: wep (买不到鸡蛋了！), 信区: Military
: 标 题: Obama admin bans pork products from federal prisons
: 发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Oct 12 11:57:43 2015, 美东)
: 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.
| d****o
发帖数: 32610 | 3 茅于轼不是说了吗
犯罪经济红红火火
监狱全都私有化了
【在 b*****e 的大作中提到】
: 联邦监狱才关了20万人啊 好像不符合我帝牢饭大国的形象
| d********f
发帖数: 43471 | 4 zan,可以考虑让第一夫人的营养餐普及进去，这样保证史泰龙进去，谢耳朵出来，社会
一片祥和太平，好望到头
【在 w*p 的大作中提到】
: 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
: 发信人: wep (买不到鸡蛋了！), 信区: Military
: 标 题: Obama admin bans pork products from federal prisons
: 发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Oct 12 11:57:43 2015, 美东)
: 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.
| g*q
发帖数: 26623 | 5 绝大多数关在state prison和jail,连同这20万,加起来230万左右
【在 b*****e 的大作中提到】
: 联邦监狱才关了20万人啊 好像不符合我帝牢饭大国的形象
| g*q
发帖数: 26623 | 6 理由居然是猪肉不好吃+猪肉贵?
这监狱食堂采购也太黑了. | t*******e
发帖数: 1633 | | l***o
发帖数: 5337 | 8 以后我一定遵纪守法，万万也不能进美帝的监狱啊。。。 | h***a
发帖数: 2720 | | s**********d
发帖数: 36899 | 10 只是联邦监狱。
绝大多数刑事犯是州里的。
【在 b*****e 的大作中提到】
: 联邦监狱才关了20万人啊 好像不符合我帝牢饭大国的形象
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