Posted on 08/31/2018 10:44:35 AM PDT by blam
Who doesn't love a juicy burger? About 5,000 Americans. And not from dietary preference, but because a single bite could cause hives, shortness of breath, or even death. It's not something they were born with, it's something their body was taught to reject, by an uninvited little wilderness hitchhiker. The following is a transcript of the video.
Imagine that you're a red-blooded carnivore. You love burgers, steak, pork chops, bacon. But one day, out of nowhere, red meat starts to make you physically sick to the stomach. It sounds like science fiction, but it's real, and it's spreading.
It's spreading to people like Amy.
Amy Pearl: My name is Amy Pearl, and I'm a producer for WNYC.
She has what is called a mammalian meat allergy.
Amy Pearl: I have a tendency to not mention it at restaurants, because I feel like if you say to a server, I'm allergic to meat, they're gonna be like, I'm spitting in your food.
Any meat that came from a cow, a pig, or a lamb, will make Amy sick. Very, very sick.
Amy Pearl: Like I just had hives on my hands and my feet, and like all over my torso. I was nauseous, and I felt like I was fainting, I felt like the world was ending, I felt like I was gonna pass out and I couldn't really breathe.
Thousands of Americans are suffering like Amy, but until 2009, this sort of allergy went undiagnosed.
Amy Pearl: I think I made an appointment with my regular physician, but he immediately was like, there's no such thing as a meat allergy, has to be something else.
That changed with the cancer drug, Cetuximab. In a clinical trial, one in four patients developed severe allergic reactions to the drug.
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The Hutterites sell a product they call “beef bacon” in Alberta that is not too bad as a substitute, but it’s most definitely NOT bacon. As for both turkey and chicken “bacon”, having tried EVERY manifestation of both I could find:
NOPE!
Then there’s the VEGAN alternative. YUK!!
What movie is that from? My first though was Altered States or Scanners and maybe AmityVille Horror II.
I feel your pain. I’m not supposed to eat anything made with grains. I’ve made tons of so called “bread” out of nut flours, and none of them taste anything like real bread. But you get used to it.
Can you have ham? If you can’t, pastrami is a good substitute. I have made corned beef from scratch, and I guess pastrami is corned beef that is smoked, instead of boiled or roasted.
As a matter of fact, you could probably make your own bacon by salting and smoking side pork. I guess it can be made without nitrates or nitrites, if those are why you can’t eat it. They also sell “uncured” bacon, now. I’ve had it. It tastes just like regular bacon.
I don’t know what movie. I googled hives or super hives or something and it came up.
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