Products that have been salted, cured, or otherwise processed to enhance flavor are “carcinogenic to humans,” the Paris-based International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) found in its report, published in the Lancet Oncology. That puts processed meat in the Group 1 carcinogenic category alongside substances like tobacco, alcohol, and plutonium. And non-processed fresh meats like beef, pork, and lamb, among others, are “probably carcinogenic to humans,” the agency said.
The solution seems to be either to stop eating altogether or to just inject some polonium and be done with the whole thing already.
I’m trying to come up with things that are still OK to eat, and for now my list has one item: lettuce. Everything else will cause immediate painful death, it seems.
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Excellent! I share this point of view completely, although I hate lettuce. 🙂
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I am convinced that everything gives you cancer if consumed in sufficient quantities. Hell, even drinking too much water can kill you. Everyone just needs to chill out*.
(*But not too much chilling out, since that will also inevitably give you cancer.)
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Yes. Life is very deathly. It will be the end of all of us.
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So I guess we’re supposed to become photosynthetic, yes? Because it seems like EVERYTHING we eat is going to give us cancer. Sheesh.
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True, life is a fatal disease. So just live with it until it kills you.
(Life isn’t worth living without the occasional platter of crisp, juicy bacon and spicy breakfast sausage , anyway!)
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Years ago I went to see a talk by some expert on healthy eating. That same evening I went to the supermarket, and examined the products carefully in an attempt to choose healthy stuff. But everything seemed to have some harmful ingredient hidden somewhere in the fine print.
When I left, I was totally stressed out, and then it occurred to me that all that stress was probably very unhealthy as well…
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Great story. 🙂 🙂
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Look at it this way: If you weren’t supposed to eat meat, evolution wouldn’t have provided you with canine teeth. 🙂
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Quality over quantity, and I say that as someone who doesn’t have any emotional attachment to red meat but has better things to do with her life than dig through a half-dozen link-tos until she gets to the actual scientific paper that, of course, has a far less alarmistic thing to say.
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