An anti-meat activist group is urging homeowners of a minor-league baseball group to “stop glorifying bacon” by way of its bacon-themed uniform, merchandise and “smell the change” slogan.
PCRM (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine) has erected a billboard a mile from the Allentown Iron Pigs’ ballpark, evaluating bacon to cigarettes and declaring: “Keep Kids Safe: Ban Bacon from Ballparks.”
The group has additionally despatched letters to the Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski and the Pigs’ homeowners, Joseph Finley and Craig Stein. One letter requires the mayor’s assist “asking the Iron Pigs to stop glorifying bacon.”
It additionally evokes the cigarette analogy:
“The team would never pass out free cartons of cigarettes to the children of the LeHigh Valley, yet they are providing open access to bacon crumbles and turning a family-friendly event into a public health crisis.”
PCRM continued the cigarette theme in its letter to the group’s homeowners letter to the team’s owners:
“Consuming bacon and other processed meat products can be as deadly as smoking.”