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In mid-August 2016 a months-old rumor began recirculating, one claiming that schools in Kent, Washington, had entirely removed pork from their menus to avoid offending Muslims. An undated call to action issued by the political action committee (PAC) ACT for America proclaimed that: ACT for America (described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an extremist group) urged readers to burn up the district's phone lines based on a second-hand report of one parent about the new policy: Howver, information plainly available on the district's web site indicated that the use of both pork and red meat in school menu items had been decreased (but not eliminated) years earlier in favor of poultry for a variety of reasons (including, but not limited to, cultural ones), and that this change was not new or isolated to Kent schools: The 2016-2017 school year isn't slated to begin until 1 September 2016, but the most recent available menus (from the end of the previous school year) show near-daily appearances of pork products on two Kent schools' [PDF, PDF] menus: It isn't clear why someone seized upon the old rumor about the Kent school district's supposedly banning pork and resurrected it in August 2016, but menus issued by the district between March and August 2016 document that pork has not been completely eliminated from school cafeterias.
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