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August 1, 2018 UPDATE: So last evening the fire company released the above. Very carefully scripted in my humble opinion. They say several factors including low ticket sales and the amount of volunteer work to get it done properly- however it’s not not exclusively those reasons necessarily is it? They didn’t say there wasn’t any protest did they?
While I am super happy to hear they are doing well with other fund raisers, many questions remain since the whole pig roast protest thing was reported by multiple individuals including the lady who first posted about this in Malvern Community Forum.
Maybe I have an overly suspicious mind, I really don’t know, but I still think there is more to the story than the public knows. And to Malvern Fire Company, no, I would never undo a donation I gave, but after hearing what I heard, like many others I sent in a small donation because I felt so badly about what I had heard. Now I do not know what to think and honestly, I also don’t quite know how I feel about THAT.
Original post intact below.
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I received this from a friend at 4:51 PM today. I first heard about this this morning. And I was outraged. What I was told is that the poor fire company got emails and phone calls saying a pig roast was a horrible thing to do to an animal, and HUH???
I’m sorry where do these people think that bacon, hotdogs, ribs and more come from?What the hell is wrong with people? And I’m sorry that this news is worth a “what the hell.” This pig roast is a community event that has been quite successful in Malvern Borough for the Malvern Fire Company. Our communities are served by mostly volunteer fire companies and community fundraisers help a lot!
I do not know what is wrong with people moving out here but do they think that their food is grown on either of the roofs of Wegmans, Kimberton Whole Foods, or Whole Foods?
What do they want? A tofu roast?To say you love the community and then to throw a monkey wrench into a successful community summer fundraiser for a local fire company is shameful. And those people who wrote those emails and made those phone calls should be giving immediate donations to the Malvern Fire Company to make up for what they will lose by canceling this event. I know I made a small donation to the Malvern Fire Company this afternoon after I heard about this.
You can make a donation by going to their website and looking for the yellow donate button or my mailing them a check or dropping it off at the fire house on King. They are at 424 E. King Malvern, PA 19355.
Pig roasts, clam bakes, chicken dinners, fairs, carnivals and barbecues are also a hallmark of summer. Old fashioned fun steeped in traditions older than we are.They foster a sense of community and for local fire companies they raise money and help them out. Plus they are helping all of us out by hosting an all-American community event.
If this craziness is true, it is anti-American in my book to fuss and get it cancelled. Anyone who either called or emailed the fire company to protest a pig roast also has no clue as to the agricultural history of Chester County! I get that people are vegan and vegetarian, but that doesn’t mean the entire community at large is or should be. And truthfully when you go to these events if you are vegan and vegetarian you either bring your own food or you find a way to eat around the meat. You don’t up and get a community event cancelled for that or because you dont like it in general do you?
And before somebody rolls up on me saying I am discriminating against vegans and vegetarians, I have them in my family. And what I know about my own family members is they’re not going to go protest to have a community event canceled because it’s not food they eat. They just eat around it and support the community event. Hey what a novel idea – that’s what grown-ups do.
I’ve gone to plenty of beef and beer fundraisers over the course of my life and I don’t drink beer. I have soda instead.
The screenshot above is one I have in its original format but the poster’s name was crossed out for post purposes to protect their identity.
In communities, I don’t think you mess with traditions. Now maybe this pig roast wasn’t an age-old fire company tradition, but it has been a successful event for the past few years and was becoming a new tradition in the summer. I think it’s really pathetic that people would ruin that for the public at large, their community in which they live, and for a beloved local volunteer fire company.
Please consider giving an immediate donation to the Malvern fire company to help them offset the loss they will experience for not holding this event if this is true.
I still think this event should go on and if ignorant people want to protest it like they protest planned deer hunts in Valley Forge Park, let them. They are the ones who are the smaller, ignorant people for it. I’m getting off my soapbox now. I am just appalled at this news if it’s true.
These people protesting the protesters don’t get it. When a pig is roasted on a spit, it is like looking at your pet dog, slaughtered, then cooked. Cooking an animal this way is in your face offensive. Children also should not have to experience this. By the way vegans & vegetarians DO know from when bacon comes.
I will donate to the fire co. to thank them for
canceling the roast.
I am approving your comment to show the other side. HOWEVER, that being said, hogwash. If people are upset by pig roasts, DON’T GO. Or if they go, don’t walk behind to where it is being roasted. I have been to pig roasts since I was little. As a child it never bothered me. It was dinner, the animal was raised for food. I understood that.
When I was growing up I also experienced animals being roasted on a spit. An ox in particular, till this day I can’t get that picture out of my mind.
In Korea they kill & roast dogs, which are raised for eating, would you be offended by this? Would you protest?
Could the fire company still have the fundraiser without the pig roast? Seems like a no brainer to me!
OK, so everyone in the world should live by your rules and your preferences, right? No variation in thoughts or beliefs allowed. A dictatorship with control over what people think and do. And eat. What if you don’t like cauliflower? Is that banned too?
Alternatively, embrace diversity and freedom of choice. And if you don’t like something, don’t go. Until we have the Sharia law you endorse, others should have choices.
It is not like looking at a pet. WTH is wrong with you? It’s a time honored tradition since the beginning of time. I’m offended you’re offended. I bet you have a closet full of leather belts and a few gouache bags to hold your thangs while you text with one hand and drive with the other.