Bacon, ham and sausages 'as big a cancer threat as smoking', WHO to warn

The Telegraph - UK ^ | 23 Oct 2015 | Agency

[amorphous]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) will publish a report on Monday on the dangers of eating processed meats.

It is expected to list processed meat as a cancer-causing substance, while fresh red meat is also expected to be regarded as bad for health, the Daily Mail said.

The classifications, by the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer, are believed to regard processed meat as "carcinogenic to humans", the highest of five possible rankings, shared with alcohol, asbestos, arsenic and cigarettes.

[amorphous]

Good bye cruel world...

[Don Hernando de Las Casas]

I’m dead....

But beer’s healthy, right? Maybe I’ve got a shot.

[Iron head mike]

Here we go again....

[Califreak]

War on Pork

[SkyDancer]

And everybody who drinks water will eventually die.

[Moonman62]

Yet another war the Muslims are involved in.

[max americana]

Wow, what earth shattering news.

[MrB]

And we should believe the experts because..?

[gov_bean_ counter]

...and if you eat smoked sausage, well...

[Lazamataz]

Bacon, ham and sausages 'as big a cancer threat as smoking', WHO to warn

WHO cares.

[Dilbert San Diego]

It seems as if everything is bad for you.

I like the idea that you should eat a variety of foods in moderation.

Going to extremes on anything will have detrimental effects. Eating too much sausage everyday will be bad for you longer term. But going on a watermelon and fruit diet will also had bad effects.

So where do we draw the line??? We all have to make those choices.

Off topic maybe, but heard yesterday that McDonald’s has added butter to Egg McMuffins, and sales are way up after they started using real butter.

[commish]

They can have my Bacon when they pry it from my cold dead cancer riddled hands.

[TheDon]

Hmmmmm.... I wonder what could possibly be motivating such obviously outlandish claims.

Great, now we will have "carcinogenic pork skeptics".

[TheDon]

LOL!

[17th Miss Regt]

This should not be dismissed so lightly. A very large scale experiment has validated this concern. During the civil war the Union Army was fed meat that consisted almost entirely of pork products - lots of bacon and smoked pork. Since then, EVERY SINGLE SOLDIER THAT WAS FED THIS WAY HAS DIED. Not a single one has survived.

We need to take these warnings seriously.

[TheDon]

Exactly. Submit or die.

[cicero2k]

If you think you have prostate cancer, it is good advice to eliminate any animal protein.

However, eggs and chicken with skin are worse than the aforementioned meats.

[amorphous]

Only when they pry that last slice of bacon from my cold dead hand!

[Snickering Hound]

So is coffee...oops nevermind...whole milk...oops nevermind...butter...ooops nevermind...

[yuleeyahoo]

Guess I’ll be dying of cancer then.