All of the bacon was inspected and smoked (cooked), or it likely was as most store bought bacon is smoked and possibly safe to eat without further cooking. In fact, George may have cooked in again in an oven (cooked the weaves together) and than cooked it a 3rd time at Porcfest on the grill. It was all cooked, likely, 2-3 times.
As for the NPR audience, sounds typical of what I think of when I think of NPR audience. My guess is less than 1% of adults in the US are voluntaryists/ anarcho-capitalists/ market anarchists.