Posted on 02/05/2019 12:00:43 PM PST by simpson96
Doctors from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), an organization made up of more than 12,000 medical professionals, protested against McDonald’s Bacon Hour. During the promotion, customers received free bacon with any order.
The demonstration saw to doctors holding red-and-yellow signs reading “#BreakUpWithBacon,” “Colorectal Cancer: I’m Riskin’ It,” and “Bacon Causes Butt Cancer” outside of a Washington DC McDonald’s restaurant. PCRM also handed out colorectal cancer screening kits.
“Your colon won’t be lovin’ McDonald’s Bacon Hour,” said PCRM president and founder Neal Barnard, M.D. “McDonald’s should be offering customers a free colorectal cancer screening with every free side of cancer-causing bacon.”
Bacon and other processed meats like cold cuts have been shown to raise one’s risk of various forms of cancer, including colorectal. In October 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified it as “carcinogenic to humans” after reviewing more than 800 diet-related studies. The WHO concluded that a few slices of bacon eaten daily could increase one’s colorectal cancer risk by 18 percent.
Research released by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) last June added to this, stating that even small amounts of processed meat can raise one’s risk(snip)
The WCRF recommended eating very little, if any, processed meat.
PCRM dietitian Lee Crosby also wrote to McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook to ask the chain to serve more plant-based options.
“Instead of Bacon Hour, consider a nationwide launch of your vegan McAloo Tikki burger, which was recently featured at your Chicago headquarters. Its potatoes, peas, red onions, and tomato slices, which are high in fiber and other protective nutrients, work to reduce colorectal cancer risk,” he said.
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You ain’t taking my bacon doc !
Take my eyes, but not my sweet bacon !
Anytime you see an organization with propagandistic names containing words like “ethical,” “responsible,” “justice” etc. etc.
You know they are just ideological leftist social-agitators for hire.
Other risky lifestyles cause butt cancer too, (among other deadly I’m Riskin it behavior) butt are celebrated.
Damn, everything causes cancer. From the water you drink, to the sun overhead, either way you will end up dead.
5.56mm
To quote Bill Engvall: Here’s your sign: IDIOT.
And where were these morons when Wendy’s came out with the Baconator?
You can smell the smugness in that photo.
“Like were ligit, ‘cause we’re wearin’ lab coats! LAB COATS!”
McDonalds throws more salads in the trash than they sell. The only reason they're on the menu is so that when the lawyers who drained billions out of the tobacco empire turn their eyes on the fast food giants, McD's can say, "We offered healthy choices! Have been doing so for years!"
Doctors kill more people than bacon...LOL!
Beautiful.
PCRM - Physicians Crapping on Real Meals
were = we’re
Slow down when typing, AAC...
You had me at sizzle.
Isn’t it funny the generation of folks from the old counties (Most of Europe during the early 1900s at least) could only keep meat by smoking or curing (bacon, ham, sausages) and they only lived into their 80s and 90s. Maybe they didn’t bother to read the warning labels on the packages.
It’s a plot hatched by Big Pharma and Big Bacon.
“We’re all gonna die of sumpthin.”
If I heard my Doc tossing around phrases like “butt cancer” I’d be looking for another Doc.
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