Posted on 10/28/2015 7:49:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Do you eat bacon? Oh. You might want to sit down for this. I’m very sorry to be the one to break this to you, but you’re probably going to get cancer and die. I hope you have your affairs in order.
At least, that’s how some people interpreted the news of a World Health Organization study that classified processed meat as carcinogenic to humans and red meat as “probably carcinogenic to humans.” (So you’re saying there’s a chance?)
It was only a matter of time before bacon and hot dogs took their place on the epic grocery list of foods that have been linked to cancer, which includes salted fish, dairy, microwave popcorn, farmed salmon and soda, among others.
Upon hearing the news, the Internet — the place where blogs like This Is Why You’re Fat aggregate recipes for bacon mac-and-cheese pie with a bacon lattice, or enthusiasts create dancing bacon gifs — promptly gave up on life. After all, we’re going to die of something, and we might as well shuffle off this mortal coil while happily noshing on chocolate-covered bacon, right?
On Twitter, someone who calls himself @Bigg_dubb wrote, “If a strip of bacon takes four minutes off your life, I should have died around 1846.” As another meme put it: “Vegetarians live up to nine years longer than meat-eaters. Nine horrible, worthless, baconless years.”
When Josh Saltzman, an owner of Washington establishments Ivy and Coney, a hot dog bar, and barbecue restaurant Kangaroo Boxing Club, read the news Monday morning, he had “a good chuckle,” he said. “I’ve never met an immortal vegetarian, so I’ll welcome my bacon-lined coffin.”
He wasn’t too worried about his businesses, where the main attractions are Chicago-style hot dogs at the former and a sandwich called “Three Little Pigs”
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Stephen Colbert’s rant last night against the bacon Nazis was masterful, even if you can’t stand him otherwise.
Expect the price of bacon to go through the roof as the normal suspects regulate it and turn into into a delicacy to make it rare to be found in U.S. homes with the end goal being pork being outrightly banned as Obamadork opens the floodgates for the Muzzies to overwhelm the U.S. This is called prepping the battlegrounds. Meanwhile he has to disarm us so the Muzzies won’t get shot back. People wake up damnit!
I love all types of meat and always smoke pork butts, ribs, hams. I get some from feral hogs harvested off my property, regularly.
But I don’t like bacon added to things.
I like a few slices at breakfast... but otherwise, don’t really care for it.
There I said it.
This would be the same WHO that so FUBAR’d the response to Ebola that the globe went into panic.
The same WHO that praised the health system in North Korea saying they have a high healthcare provider/population ratio and that the population shows no signs of obesity.
The worst, really terrifying, news is this: if you’re a human being, you’re going to die.
A BLT is two-thirds vegetarian (three-fourths if you count the bread), so you're actually following the Vegan's lead. Good for you.
I ordered a Bacon Cheeseburger with EXTRA bacon yesterday to poke my bacon-flavored finger into WHO's eye.
I don’t believe anything that comes out of the corrupt UN and I don’t want to fund nor host the UN. The UN is run by Muslims and Marxists.
According to Arby’s: “Bacon is a gift pigs give you when you’re good.”
Yes be Vewy Vewy careful of bacon, because if you eat it every day, you will raise you chance of getting colorectal cancer by a whopping 1% from 5% to 6%
Egads- the horror!
What time is dinner?
If bacon caused cancer the entire South would be an unpopulated wasteland. :-)
Two weeks ago, while camping some friends shared some bacon from a freshly processed pig they raised on their farm. Deeelicious.
It ain’t bacon if it doesnt come from a pig.
Does that help?
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