So, there is a butter battle in Wisconsin.
A new legislative effort is under way to repeal Wisconsin’s margarine restrictions, and it’s rekindled a decades-old debate. By law, Wisconsin restaurants can’t serve margarine tableside, unless a customer makes a special request. The state also can’t serve margarine to its prison inmates, unless they are vegans or have some health concern that causes them to request it.
Could it be more Wisconsin? It gets better:
Most people see this as a classic case of big government,” said state Rep. Dale Kooyenga, R-Brookfield, who introduced a bill repealing these margarine laws. “And creating regulation that doesn’t make sense.” But Kooyenga’s bill has struck a nerve with some people in the Dairy State, especially those in the business of promoting dairy products, like butter. “It’s a bill that’s misguided,” said Brad Legreid, executive director of the Wisconsin Dairy Products Association. “It shows a total lack of support for Wisconsin’s dairy industry.”
Making inmate butter consumption non-compulsory shows a lack of support for the state dairy industry? The Cod hearts butter, and has no time for margarine, but, for the moment, The Cod swims the street as a free fish. It's not as if we're carrying a torch for Amnesty International, but, just maybe, compelling inmates to eat more of something the state produces that might not be good for them, is, you know sketchy.
That said, there are some folks who are verry interested in commiting a crime in Wisconsin all of a sudden. Thanks to Penny Pascal, tearing it up on the Tumblrs, BTW, for the Peerless Photoshopping:
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