Bacon >>>>> Health
Sorry, not really even a contest
On a more serious note, I have bacon like, what, not even five times a year? I probably can't recount the last time I ate in in the past 365 days. It's good, but it's like a treat when I eat out at restaurants for breakfast. As for the other red meats, I've gradually moved away from processed beef. I never had a thing for hamburgers, but taco nights are frequent at my house. Recently, I'm not so into tacos though. Steak, beef stew, and Italian BMTs are the only source of red meat I get these days, none of them frequent.
But on an even more serious note, everything causes cancer. The sun (radiation!), the air (pollution!), thinking too hard (brain rot!), you can't win.
Omnivore ftw. Eat whatever I want, survive on anything
What doesn't cause cancer?
What doesn't cause cancer today could cause cancer tomorrow. Nothing is sacred/safe nowadays, there's some risk associated with everything whether it's known now or later. In some cases we'll hear later on something some health risk was previously associated with is safe, they were wrong or testing wasn't conclusive enough.
Life is too short..
Therefore, bacon >>>>> cancer. If it can cause cancer not everyone will develop it much like how everyone that smokes doesn't develop cancer. Most likely bacon cancer will be slow to develop, progress and could take years of bacon exposure. The reward of eating delicious bacon is worth the miniscule risk of developing cancer. Pretty soon we'll see an anti-bacon PSA on television. There will be risks of second hand bacon exposure. Bacon is an addiction. Bacon is love, bacon is life. Bacon is god.
/supersrs
Sitting in front of a computer can also cause cancer. Anything can cause cancer if you follow an unhealthy lifestyle.
Obviously the real headline is: "Bacon, sausage, hotdogs, and other processed meats contain carcinogens which significantly increase the likelihood of developing colorectal and stomach cancers." But there is not a newspaper alive that will run that instead of "bacon causes cancer!"
Arstechnica Wrote:Among supporting evidence, the panel cited a 2011 meta-analysis, which concluded that every additional 50 grams of processed meat eaten daily raises a person’s relative risk of colorectal cancer by 18 percent.
That study also found that every additional 100g of red meat eaten daily increased the relative risks of colorectal cancer by 17 percent.
That is pretty significant. 100g of red meat is a quarter pound hamburger, which is kind of big and most people are smart enough to avoid. But bacon comes in pound packages in the US, and that is
eight times the 50 grams every day that causes that 18% risk as the study says. Each pound package contains 20 slices, so that's only 2.5 slices of bacon! That little bacon everyday would lead to a 18% increased risk of cancer. That's scary!
But if you ate a quarter pound of beef every day or bacon every day, you would probably die of heart disease long before the cancer got you.
Yeah, the key here is frequency. If you're eating that kinda stuff daily, expect to die. Your death will be delicious though
Like, 90% of the meats I eat are chicken. Poultry never fails!
*inb4 chicken causes super cancer*
(10-27-2015, 04:42 PM)jimbo1qaz Wrote: [ -> ]bacon is not delicious
You're right. It's scrumptious, succulent, above all amazing.
Aside from bacon and small portions of ham, I hate pig meat though. Feed me pork, and I will grab Pop-tarts instead. I just can't stand the texture of pork; too rough and it can't hold seasonings very well. Bleh! Sausages are even worse; they're always,
always saturated in waaay too much fat. It's like I'm eating a heart attack.
Anyway I guess we can be proud of ourselves, we've been arguing about bacon for aound 20 posts