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No, state Rep. Marty Wilde doesn’t want to take your bacon away. With the 2021 legislative session in full (remote) work swing, Wilde Introduced House Bill 2348. The bill makes plant-based meals available for people in Oregon prisons and hospitals. A similar bill was introduced during the 2019 legislative session. On Jan. 27, the conservative blog Oregon Catalyst posted a story alleging Wilde’s bill is going to take bacon away from dying patients at hospitals, adding that a “criminal on death row would have more rights to a last meal” than someone in hospice. If passed today, the bill would indeed prohibit processed meats at hospitals, but the bill’s sausage-making process isn’t over yet. ....