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Shattuck: Bacon report serves up baloney
The Boston Herald ^ | 10/27/2015 | Tom Shattuck

Posted on 10/27/2015 6:54:56 AM PDT by calvincaspian

The World Health Organization released a report yesterday that’s nothing but a bunch of soccer loving Euro-bull.

Here’s the gist: Processed meats cause cancer and red meat probably does, too. They actually put bacon, sausage, jerky in the same risk category as smoking and asbestos. Smoking and asbestos. Really?

Remember, this is the same WHO (part of the United Nations, mind you) that ran around last year telling us to expect 250,000 annual deaths due to climate change in the near future. The chief alarmist there is Dr. Margaret Chan, who added, “Our planet is losing its capacity to sustain human life in good health.”

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The U.N. and the WHO are nothing but a garnish. Attractive but tasteless, and at the end of the day, useless.
1 posted on 10/27/2015 6:54:56 AM PDT by calvincaspian
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To: calvincaspian

Don’t smoke bacon!


2 posted on 10/27/2015 6:56:34 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Thank you mom for not being "pro-choice." Amen.)
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To: calvincaspian

The same World “Health” Organization that tries to tell us how healthy the homosexual lifestyle is.


3 posted on 10/27/2015 6:57:32 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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Processed meats cause cancer and red meat probably does, too.

What kind of 'science' is 'probably'?...............................

4 posted on 10/27/2015 6:58:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: calvincaspian

What we’re losing is the willingness to ridicule and ignore bullshit that supports the Leftie agenda when it is presented as “settled science”.


5 posted on 10/27/2015 6:59:25 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: calvincaspian

Anytime this farce of a world joke comes out with anything; you can be sure that there’s a huge hidden agenda under it somewhere. What is it this time? They won’t be satisfied until we’re all eating algae out of squeeze tubes and living on alfalfa pills; government produced of course.


6 posted on 10/27/2015 7:02:57 AM PDT by Aleya2Fairlie
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To: bigbob

You’re right.
This was the lead story on so many newscasts yesterday. In every case, it was “breaking news.”


7 posted on 10/27/2015 7:03:36 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Don’t smoke asbestos, either!

It’s nasty and hard to keep lit.


8 posted on 10/27/2015 7:04:34 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: calvincaspian

Sadly, when reporting on this type of story, the media never bother to tell people the difference between RELATIVE risk and ABSOLUTE risk. So, I will tell you.

Let’s say the overall lifetime risk of developing colon cancer is 5%. And, let’s posit that regularly eating these meats increases that risk by 18%. The 18% increase is the RELATIVE risk increase. BUT, keep in mind that the absolute lifetime risk of developing colon cancer is only raised to 5.9%. So, one just has to decide if being able to enjoy delicious meats is worth it or not. Problem solved.


9 posted on 10/27/2015 7:04:35 AM PDT by mtrott
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ammo for the day they force us all on an all plant diet


10 posted on 10/27/2015 7:05:21 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

This sounds like something CAIR would be behind.


11 posted on 10/27/2015 7:07:00 AM PDT by ground_fog
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I’m sure all islam is supporting it... of course muslims have their own health issues from their meat diets, smoking & sexually transmitted diseases.


12 posted on 10/27/2015 7:10:59 AM PDT by SIRTRIS
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They can pry my bacon out of my cold dead hands. Go suck a tofu stick, WHO.

mmmmm, bacon. :-)


13 posted on 10/27/2015 7:12:41 AM PDT by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender! REMEMBER NEDA)
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The Globalists have finally found something that makes both Climate Change Freaks AND Muslims happy!

If lack of bacon could just somehow harm the State of Israel they will have hit the trifecta!


14 posted on 10/27/2015 7:14:41 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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What is disturbing to me is that people like Margaret Chan are active propagandists. They are lying about almost everything for the purpose of further reduction of sovereignty among nations and THEY KNOW IT! They aren’t just idiots being duped.

They are part of an active, evil plan, and make no mistake, they are evil incarnate.


15 posted on 10/27/2015 7:22:25 AM PDT by subterfuge (TED CRUZ FOR POTUS! TED CRUZ FOR POTUS!)
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In 2010, Margaret Chan praised North Korea’s health system saying there is an abundance of medical staff and the population shows no signs of obesity.

No kidding.


16 posted on 10/27/2015 7:23:17 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: VictoryGal

17 posted on 10/27/2015 7:23:24 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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Here’s the gist:

"In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other got the best of it myself. But last Spring I stopped frolicking with mince pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at 8 in the morning, and no bite nor sup till 7:30 in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me. Headachy people would not reach 70 comfortably by that road. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make 70 by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery.
Mark Twain.

A simpler quote with the same message: If you can't get to seventy by a comfortable road; don't go.

18 posted on 10/27/2015 7:26:17 AM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.)
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To: SIRTRIS

Not to mention inbreeding.
Brother-sister marriages are commonplace in their society.


19 posted on 10/27/2015 7:28:59 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: bigbob
What we’re losing is the willingness to ridicule and ignore bullshit that supports the Leftie agenda when it is presented as “settled science”.

Gives me flashbacks to the old Weekly World News which would add credibility to outrageous stories by quoting "A Scientist" and including a photo of someone in a lab coat.


20 posted on 10/27/2015 7:29:20 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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