Pork comes off the menu at federal prisons. Wait… what?

From Hot Air:

From the Department of “Where the Heck Did This Come From?”

As of this week there’s going to be a change coming to the cafeteria menu at our nation’s federal prisons. There will no longer be pork chops, ham or … bacon (!) being served once the new rules go into effect. Apparently this story did not come from The Onion. (Fox News)

Inmates will no longer be pigging out on ham or bacon after the Obama administration removed pig products from federal prison menus, in a sudden move being decried by the pork industry.

The federal Bureau of Prisons, responsible for over 200,000 inmates, reportedly imposed the ham ban at the beginning of the month and said it was in response to surveys of prisoners’ food preferences. According to the government, pork just wasn’t a popular menu item.

“Why keep pushing food that people don’t want to eat?” Edmond Ross, a spokesman for the prison bureau, told The Washington Post. “Pork has been the lowest-rated food by inmates for several years.”

If you find yourself being a bit skeptical upon reading that last bit, join the club. You can offer all manner of explanations for why certain menu changes are made at a public facility, but so you seriously expect us to believe that the prisoners don’t like bacon? Who doesn’t like ham unless it’s for religious reasons? Speaking of which, there are already rumors flying as to possible alternative explanations here.

I just don't buy it. "Unexpectedly", one of the most popular meats ever, bacon, is suddenly not popular? But considering who runs this Regime, I can't say I'm surprised.