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In reply to the discussion: Bacon, sausages and ham rank alongside smoking as cancer causes, says WHO [View all]Reter
(2,188 posts)22. I love the grin symbol! <g>
It's screams 1993.
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Bacon, sausages and ham rank alongside smoking as cancer causes, says WHO [View all]
brooklynite
Oct 2015
OP
Your grandparents didn't eat pink slime formed together and called red meat. n/t
jtuck004
Oct 2015
#15
I see how the internet sucks for reading between the lines, and you can put a :) in the title
Reter
Oct 2015
#107
I doubt that even 100 years ago that people ate red meat at about every meal.
LiberalArkie
Oct 2015
#42
Exactly. There are a lot of myths used to rationalize gorging on industrially-produced meat now
villager
Oct 2015
#76
This has been know for some time. Still it is good that it calling attention to it
still_one
Oct 2015
#2
"another study will tell you NOT eating ... shortens life" - yes, like eggs.
closeupready
Oct 2015
#30
Eh...fuck it. Still eating ham, bacon, red meat, etc. It's not like I have it every day.
TwilightGardener
Oct 2015
#39
Uhm, just a quibble, but in the case of salt, there is no chemical difference between "sea salt"..
Humanist_Activist
Oct 2015
#72
I would say follow the directions from your doctor, removing salt entirely from you diet is harmful.
Humanist_Activist
Oct 2015
#79
More than one highly respected person I've listened to has mentioned the differences between the two
Gregorian
Oct 2015
#121
Up until a couple of months ago, I thought there might be chemical differences between sea salt...
Humanist_Activist
Oct 2015
#122
gotten worse when they took the dog food scrap and started feeding it to humans. Worse
Sunlei
Oct 2015
#58
Hopefully lab grown, cloned meat becomes economical, that's my hope...
Humanist_Activist
Oct 2015
#73
I may die a little earlier because of bacon, but you have to be a little skeptical.
Vinca
Oct 2015
#81
we know that meat production is bad for human health, deadly for the animals it kills,
restorefreedom
Oct 2015
#87
The risk: a 0.8% higher chance of coloreectal cancer from 2oz processed meat per day
muriel_volestrangler
Oct 2015
#111
Well there's mass produced chemically smoked bacon and then there's the other kinc
Monk06
Oct 2015
#123