Posted on 02/05/2019 12:00:43 PM PST by simpson96
Doctors from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), an organization made up of more than 12,000 medical professionals, protested against McDonald’s Bacon Hour. During the promotion, customers received free bacon with any order.
The demonstration saw to doctors holding red-and-yellow signs reading “#BreakUpWithBacon,” “Colorectal Cancer: I’m Riskin’ It,” and “Bacon Causes Butt Cancer” outside of a Washington DC McDonald’s restaurant. PCRM also handed out colorectal cancer screening kits.
“Your colon won’t be lovin’ McDonald’s Bacon Hour,” said PCRM president and founder Neal Barnard, M.D. “McDonald’s should be offering customers a free colorectal cancer screening with every free side of cancer-causing bacon.”
Bacon and other processed meats like cold cuts have been shown to raise one’s risk of various forms of cancer, including colorectal. In October 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified it as “carcinogenic to humans” after reviewing more than 800 diet-related studies. The WHO concluded that a few slices of bacon eaten daily could increase one’s colorectal cancer risk by 18 percent.
Research released by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) last June added to this, stating that even small amounts of processed meat can raise one’s risk(snip)
The WCRF recommended eating very little, if any, processed meat.
PCRM dietitian Lee Crosby also wrote to McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook to ask the chain to serve more plant-based options.
“Instead of Bacon Hour, consider a nationwide launch of your vegan McAloo Tikki burger, which was recently featured at your Chicago headquarters. Its potatoes, peas, red onions, and tomato slices, which are high in fiber and other protective nutrients, work to reduce colorectal cancer risk,” he said.
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The seldom times I have bacon I pat it dry to get rid of the fat that’s still kinda liquid.
Yep...I DARE those protestors to protest homo sex. Then see what happens. They’d be risking their lives.
Nothin’ wrong with that.
I don't eat bacon slices at a time ... I eat bacon according to the number of pounds of it that I have available. I love breakfast buffets that serve bacon ... I easily get a full return for my money just from the amount of bacon that I consume.
You'll pry my bacon from me at your peril ... I'm armed and protecting something precious to me!
Just like a song stuck in your head. Now all I can think about is bacon wrapped meat loaf for dinner.
Hmm. Looks like this group wants some of that “green” bacon that McDonald’s has plenty of. I’m sure they’re willing to offer to “consult” the restaurant chain for a “small” fee!
MMMMmmmmm..... highly refined and processed vegetable material on a bun.
"Healthy"? Suuuuuure.
50% isn’t bad. Especially because you fessed up to the fat fingers.
“Like were ligit, ‘cause we’re wearin’ lab coats...”
Better than the 0% so many people are batting these days.
Or bacon and peanut butter on toast.
Eat some bacon. Enjoy it. Or don't. Either way, you're going to die of something, sooner or later.
DEEEEEE-licious
Doctors from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), an organization made up of more than 12,000 medical professionals, protested against McDonald’s Bacon Hour.
I guess they found 12,000 doctors that haven’t realized that everyone’s body is different.
What to you call the guy who graduates last in his class of medical school?
Doctor.
Yep.
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LOL! Sounds like the doc from "Idiocracy".
Thanks. Also, my “quote” was directed at the photograph in the article. The agitators think that we will believe them simply because they wear lab coats. Hell’s bells, I can buy them at any of the local university bookstores in their lab equipment sections. It isn’t as though you have to prove that you are a physician in order to have one.
I’m eating healthy. I’ve switched from regular bacon to what is sold in the stores as “uncured” bacon without nitrates / nitrites. Tastes just the same as regular bacon and I’m skipping the nitrates which nobody needs.
A penny for your thought now F off.
Why, because of nitrates? They’ll have to protest vegetables since many of them are higher in nitrates than bacon.
My guess is vegans doing the usual look at me act and not real science.
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