Are You Going to Stop Eating Bacon & Sausage Now?

[Apostulator]

Processed meats such as bacon, sausages and ham do seem to cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization.
So are you going to stop eating bacon, sausage, processed lunchmeats and canned Spam now?

[chiefputsilao✖️ping]

if i don't eat them, i die within weeks.
if i eat them, i die within two decades.

seems no brainer.

[Shard]

I really HOPE I can eat bacon and sausages, much better than the garbage cup noodles I eat daily (life...ya know)

[FilthySouls]

Nope.

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by Apostulator:

Processed meats such as bacon, sausages and ham do seem to cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization. :mkb:
So are you going to stop eating bacon, sausage, processed lunchmeats and canned Spam now?

I have it on good authority that 100% of lung cancer patients have been subjected to nitrogen, thus follows that nitrogen is likely to cause lung cancer.

That is about the same reasoning for that recommendation about meat.

That being said: I have stopped eating red meat almost 2 decades ago, and i am limiting the rest of my meat (fish and white meat like chicken) to 1 pound, thus following a mostly vegetarian diet anyway. So either way i wouldn't care one way or another. I even if i was still eating red meat, it would be in amounts that are negligible. Besides, cancer being a mutation of cells, nothing will get me a 100% chance of not getting cancer anyway.

We should instead of sitting around trying to figure out what could cause cancer, finally start working a little more on how to fix it.

[♠ZerØ♠]

Let me see.

Oh yea, still going to eat them because, and excuse me if you think this is wrong, but everything seems to give you cancer. I'll skip on the smoking, cell phone and microwave use, spend less time under the sun, and not get a job inside a functioning nuclear reactor. That should balance out my sausage and bacon cancer chances.

Bacon causes cancer. Yep.

Lets do some reading. Okay. The top story is already written so poorly that the headline is "Bad Day For Bacon: Processed Red Meats Cause Cancer, Says WHO" See if you can spot the wrong things in that headline.

Second, it says meat is dangerous if you eat a huge amount of it. Not news since the 1960's. Causes colon cancer. Already knew that and red meat too. Uses the scare tactic of "Is as dangerous as smoking" but almost immediately says "lol! not really!"

And then the big shocker of shockers. International Agency for Research on Cancer says "consuming a healthy diet with an emphasis on plant foods and limiting consumption of processed meat and red meat,"

So, World Health Organization. What you are saying is. Don't eat a bunch of meat. Eat a healthy and balanced diet. I am so shocked.

I am super glad that the W.H.O. isn't a giant profiteering joke of a group, that the internet and major news sources are smart enough to not run this like it is actual news, and that my fellow internet people can read beyond the headlines and see that nothing has changed...

*Looks at newfeed* OH ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!

[Danksama]

Yeah, the latest thing on the endless conveyor belt of things that give you cancer. It's not really true. As long as you don't eat sausages and bacon to excess, have an otherwise balanced diet and exercise semi-regularly you're pretty unlikely to get cancer from eating sausages and bacon.

[Mod Sloth]

By volume, I'm 30% sausage. So no, no I won't.

[C4Warr10r]

PFFT! No. Notice anything odd about all the news reports covering this? They never mention any of the context around these studies, like testing methods or what your intitial chances were. Just approximately "18% greater risk."

To put this in perspective, your chances of developing cancer are roughly one in three right now. Carcinogens do have an effect but the number one cause of cancer is simply being alive. These bodies were not designed to last much longer than their purpose. Afterwards, they begin auto-destructing in order to keep you from being a competitor to your own genes, which would mean re-using the same template too many times, and also a disease vector. When you die, you take a lot of your parasites with you. They'll need new form to plague the younger ones.

To this end, you have a 100% chance of getting cancer should you live long enough. Your body generally tells when you have outlived your usefulnesss by the feedback you give it. If you think life is crap and it's full of stress, you will get cancer sooner. If people were willing to undertake certain unethical experiments, I could make them give themselves cancer in a year or three. Ulcers and stuff too.

With that in mind, what is the chance of you developing, not cancer, but specifically colorectal cancer as indicated in the study? I couldn't say but population-wide, to date, it's 5%. We can assume not all those people have been living the vegan lifestyle until just now. But if we ignore that and just tack on this study, fiating that it is accurate, your chance when from 5% to 5.18%

Wow! Time to hit the panic button! Better cut all that meat and really watch what you eat!

Not that I oppose dietary choices people make like that but just don't worry about cancer too much. It's like that Cave Johnson bit from Portal 2, where thinking about the problem is actually what makes it happen. That is quite true, elevated stress levels, particularly when people feel like they've lost control, are far more cancerous than this pittance. Additionally they cause a lot of more commonplace afflictions like heart disease. So don't take life too seriously.

If you really want to lower your cancer risk, it's best to not be part of the demographic that has the highest cancer rates and earliest incidences - the poor. I hope that makes everybody's day at work : )

[Pirate Pete]

bacon for life

[Azza ☠]

Can't say I ate them to begin with.... bacon is gross.

In NZ we have higher quality meats and therefore bacon isn't full of chemicals, sugars, salts, or overcooked. Rather it's soft, not crispy, etc. Usually made from side and back cuts of pork, rather than "streaky", "fatty", or "American style" belly fat. As a result, 'murican bacon actually tastes better, but is 10x worst for you.

[Zefar]

Originally posted by Apostulator:

Processed meats such as bacon, sausages and ham do seem to cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization. :mkb:
So are you going to stop eating bacon, sausage, processed lunchmeats and canned Spam now?

White bread causes your eyes to get worse.

Eating brown bread or darker type bread can give you cancer.

Eating chips can give you cancer.


WHO can say what they want but they are not going to stop people from eating the meat because I'm quite sure they have stated the same thing for the things I listed above. Problem is you need to eat an insane amount of that stuff and to the point where you're more likely to die from overeating than to die from cancer.

[♠ZerØ♠]

Originally posted by Zefar:

Originally posted by Apostulator:

Processed meats such as bacon, sausages and ham do seem to cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization. :mkb:
So are you going to stop eating bacon, sausage, processed lunchmeats and canned Spam now?

White bread causes your eyes to get worse.

Eating brown bread or darker type bread can give you cancer.

Eating chips can give you cancer.


WHO can say what they want but they are not going to stop people from eating the meat because I'm quite sure they have stated the same thing for the things I listed above. Problem is you need to eat an insane amount of that stuff and to the point where you're more likely to die from overeating than to die from cancer.

Death by Brisket. I think I have now found the way I would like to pass from this world.

[L7vanmatre]

Well, not gonna do anything different, tbh.

I get sick to the point of vomiting sometimes when I eat Lunchables, so none of that already.

Actually, that's the only processed meat that I don't eat. Ok.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Living causes cancer.

[Danksama]

Originally posted by Rumpelcrutchskin:

Living causes cancer.

Cancer is the No 1 leading cause of death by cancer