Prisoners will once again be served nasty food they hate in order to placate bureaucrats terrified of recrimination from corrupt Congressmen in the pocket of powerful industrialists.
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The Bureau of Prisons reversed its plans to get rid of all pork products after announcing only a week ago that it was banning pork from all of its 122 prisons.
Grassley chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees federal prisons, and said he was skeptical of claims made by a spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons, who said a survey showed pork was the inmates’ lowest-rated food. The NPPC says 547,800 jobs are involved in various aspects of the pork industry, creating an estimated $22.3 billion in personal income and contributing $39 billion to the GDP.
Grassley sent a letter Thursday to Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Charles Samuels questioning the transparency surrounding the decision and how much taxpayer money was used to conduct this survey in the first place. Muslim groups feared a backlash from anti-Islam groups that could spin the decision into a case of the federal government acting under pressure from Muslims – and a few did. In the last two years, the menu had dropped from bacon, pork chops and sausages to just one dish: Pork roast, the entree now back on federal prison dining halls.
As of this week, pork is back on the menu.
“The Bureau of Prisons’ spokesman indicated that pork was expensive to provide”.
The pork industry was also dubious about the findings of a survey that came to the conclusion prisoners didn’t want pork. Besides several Congressional leaders expressing dismay at the decision, the National Pork Producers Council was up in arms over the Bureau of Prisons decision.
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Pork pork pork. “The other white meat”, in the same way that urine is “The other Gatorade”.
