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Fighting back against the bacon-bashers: Take away my bacon from my cold, dead fingers
New York Post ^ | 10/28/2015 | Maura Judkis

Posted on 10/28/2015 7:49:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Do you eat bacon? Oh. You might want to sit down for this. I’m very sorry to be the one to break this to you, but you’re probably going to get cancer and die. I hope you have your affairs in order.

At least, that’s how some people interpreted the news of a World Health Organization study that classified processed meat as carcinogenic to humans and red meat as “probably carcinogenic to humans.” (So you’re saying there’s a chance?)

It was only a matter of time before bacon and hot dogs took their place on the epic grocery list of foods that have been linked to cancer, which includes salted fish, dairy, microwave popcorn, farmed salmon and soda, among others.

Upon hearing the news, the Internet — the place where blogs like This Is Why You’re Fat aggregate recipes for bacon mac-and-cheese pie with a bacon lattice, or enthusiasts create dancing bacon gifs — promptly gave up on life. After all, we’re going to die of something, and we might as well shuffle off this mortal coil while happily noshing on chocolate-covered bacon, right?

On Twitter, someone who calls himself @Bigg_dubb wrote, “If a strip of bacon takes four minutes off your life, I should have died around 1846.” As another meme put it: “Vegetarians live up to nine years longer than meat-eaters. Nine horrible, worthless, baconless years.”

When Josh Saltzman, an owner of Washington establishments Ivy and Coney, a hot dog bar, and barbecue restaurant Kangaroo Boxing Club, read the news Monday morning, he had “a good chuckle,” he said. “I’ve never met an immortal vegetarian, so I’ll welcome my bacon-lined coffin.”

He wasn’t too worried about his businesses, where the main attractions are Chicago-style hot dogs at the former and a sandwich called “Three Little Pigs”

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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: bacon; cancer
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1 posted on 10/28/2015 7:49:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

BLT’s all around. Had one yesterday afternoon. Maybe I’ll do a peanut butter and bacon today.


2 posted on 10/28/2015 7:52:20 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bacon is pure pork. What’s the problem? The grease (fat) is cooked off. So what’s really left? Pigilicious!


3 posted on 10/28/2015 7:53:31 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder what percentage of the WHO are muzzies? Ain’t the WHO a part of the UN? Nuff said.


4 posted on 10/28/2015 7:53:54 AM PDT by biff
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To: SeekAndFind

Libs and muzzies don’t eat pork because they consider it cannibalism.


5 posted on 10/28/2015 7:54:10 AM PDT by samtheman (I will build a great, great wall on our southern border... - DT)
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To: SeekAndFind
Screw the WHO.

I'm having my favorite sandwich for supper tonight:

Natural casing hot dogs (split) on Caraway rye bread with Hellman's mayo and Velveeta...with 3 slices of bacon.

And a bowl of tomato soup on the side. Yummo.

6 posted on 10/28/2015 7:54:16 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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To: rktman

Just cooked my protein rich egg in bacon grease.


7 posted on 10/28/2015 7:54:29 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Bacon is linked to increased risk of death?

Being born is linked to increased risk of death.


8 posted on 10/28/2015 7:55:37 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: Sacajaweau

Yummmmmeeeeee! I haven’t gotten to the point of dipping my bread in bacon grease yet. LOL!


9 posted on 10/28/2015 7:56:46 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: SeekAndFind

How long before the liberal fascists bans bacon, hot dogs and ham?


10 posted on 10/28/2015 7:56:48 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
RE: Screw the WHO.

NOT THIS WHO? :)


11 posted on 10/28/2015 7:57:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: dp0622

If they don’t mind their own business, poking one’s nose into people’s diet may become linked to an increased risk of death.


12 posted on 10/28/2015 7:58:40 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ve been reading this nonsense about bacon and other processed meats on and off for years. It’s like the theory that charcoal grilling gives you cancer. That hoax shows up every summer.

My Dad was German. He and his ancestors ate a lot of pork products. None of them ever had cancer. Cancer isn’t prevalent on either side of my family. This is a load of you know what.


13 posted on 10/28/2015 7:58:55 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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14 posted on 10/28/2015 7:59:08 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They can take my bacon when they start warning the public about the dangers of gay sex.


15 posted on 10/28/2015 7:59:17 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Still Thinking

lol.


16 posted on 10/28/2015 7:59:26 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: SeekAndFind

This was a pro-Muslim finding. They want to eliminate pork across the whole planet. I think there’s a huge market for bacon dipped bullets.


17 posted on 10/28/2015 7:59:59 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Sacajaweau

That’s the only way me and Mrs. Thinking fry ours!

(Unless we’re out, in which case we have to make do with butter, but there’s usually some BG in the fridge)

Bacon grease makes excellent pie crust too.


18 posted on 10/28/2015 8:00:36 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: SeekAndFind
CAPS LOCK ON PURPOSE


I THINK THERE SHOULD BE SOME CLARIFICATION

I CAN GET TURKEY BACON,CHICKEN BACON, AND PORK BACON ...

DOES THE FEAR MONGERING ARTICLES SPECIFICALLY TARGET PORK .... OR DO THEY JUST SAY "BACON" ?

caps off

19 posted on 10/28/2015 8:03:08 AM PDT by knarf
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To: SeekAndFind

You know that these little jabs are at Americans. Most people around the world don’t have enough to eat let alone bacon as an option on the menu.


20 posted on 10/28/2015 8:03:20 AM PDT by dhs12345
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