Tuesday, October 27, 2015

World Health Organisation: Bacon As Bad As Asbestos, Tobacco, Plutonium



World Health Organisation: Bacon As Bad As Asbestos, Tobacco, Plutonium
by James Delingpole 27 Oct 2015
By spooky coincidence at the exact moment I read in the newspaper that the World Health Organisation has declared processed pork products to be in the same cancer risk category as asbestos, tobacco and plutonium, I was eating a big fat sizzling rasher of bacon.

Actually that’s a lie. It’s not remotely spooky or coincidental that I was eating bacon when I read this because I always eat bacon at breakfast with my newspaper.

The reason I always eat bacon at breakfast, every day, without fail, is because bacon tastes delicious. It’s one of the three main reasons God invented the pig (the others being ham and sausage, obviously). I like it so much that sometimes I wonder whether I should become a vegetarian, just so that I can experience that incredible thing all well-adjusted vegetarians go through whereby they realise just how joyless and pointless being a vegetarian is and are seized by an insanely powerful urge to eat a bacon sandwich. And then they do eat a bacon sandwich and tears stream from their eyes and celestial choirs sing the Hallelujah chorus and the interior of their mouth explodes in a gustatory orgasm and they vow never to return to the dark side again. (Cara Delevinge will experience something similar, probably, when she finally remembers that she isn’t actually a lesbian).

But now the World Health Organisation’s International Agency For Research On Cancer (IARC) is telling me I shouldn’t eat bacon because it will increase my risk of getting cancer.

(You mark my words, they won’t stop at bacon. Pretty soon those health nazi killjoys will be trying to claim that barbecued food gives you cancer. And toast. Even cigarettes, before long, I shouldn’t wonder. Imagine!)

As always when you look into the details of this new health scare, it isn’t quite as clear-cut as the newspaper headlines make out.

Christopher Snowdon is good on this:

The IARC are not claiming that eating processed meat is “as bad a cancer threat as smoking”, nor are they saying that “processed meats pose the same cancer risk as smoking and asbestos”. They are merely claiming that the evidence that there is some increased cancer risk is strong enough to be considered proven.

The agency has trawled through the vast literature of nutritional epidemiology to come to these conclusions. This literature is a notorious swamp of publication bias, competing interests and contradictory findings. Almost every type of food has been linked to some disease or other over the years, sometimes positively, sometimes negatively, but rarely on a scale that would alarm a level-headed individual.

Better still is an organisation I’d never heard of before, but which I’m definitely going to join on principle, if they’ll have me on board: the North American Meat Institute.

Here’s what their Vice President of Scientific Affairs Betsy Booren had to say in a statement:
“They tortured the data to ensure a specific outcome.”

“Red and processed meat are among 940 agents reviewed by IARC and found to pose some level of theoretical ‘hazard.’ Only one substance, a chemical in yoga pants, has been declared by IARC not to cause cancer.”

I still can’t work out whether the yoga pants thing is a joke or not but I like this woman’s style.

She’s quite right though. If we paid any heed to all the things researchers tell us can give us cancer, then we’d probably have to give up eating and drinking altogether.

This study from 2013Is everything we eat associated with cancer? A systematic cookbook review – illustrates the problem well.

The researchers selected 50 common ingredients from cook books. Forty of these ingredients (80 per cent) had articles reporting on their cancer risk.

Its conclusion:

 Associations with cancer risk or benefits have been claimed for most food ingredients. Many single studies highlight implausibly large effects, even though evidence is weak. Effect sizes shrink in meta-analyses.

Now I’m going to celebrate with a large bacon sandwich with plutonium dressing and a cigarette to go with my coffee afterwards. It’s not like we’re not all going to die anyway.

World Health Organization
World Health Organization is a U.N. coordinating agency for world health.

Note: Thomas R. Frieden is the U.S. representative for the World Health Organization, and the director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the Barack Obama administration.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a U.S. regulatory agency for world health.
CDC Foundation is a Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Bloomberg Family Foundation was a funder for the CDC Foundation, and the World Health Organization.
Jim Yong Kim was a director, HIV-AIDS department for the World Health Organization, and a guest at George Soros’s 2013 wedding.
George Soros was married in 2013 & Jim Yong Kim was a guest, the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, and a benefactor for the Human Rights Watch.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), the Millennium Promise, and the Human Rights Watch.
Michael R. Bloomberg was a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, a contributor for the Americans for Responsible Solutions, is a co-chair for Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the founder for Everytown for Gun Safety, and the founder of the Bloomberg Family Foundation. 
Americans for Responsible Solutions is a “Gun Safety” PAC for guns.
Mayors Against Illegal Guns is a “Gun Safety” group for guns.
Everytown for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety” group for guns.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is a federal regulatory agency for guns.
Warren E. Buffett is an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety, a trustee & major donor for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and an adviser for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was a funder for the World Health Organization.
Margaret A. Hamburg is the VP for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), David A. Hamburg’s daughter, was a trustee at the Rockefeller Foundation, and a commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Rockefeller Foundation was a funder for the World Health Organization, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).     
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), was a trustee at the Rockefeller Foundation, the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
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Donald Kennedy was a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and a commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Jane E. Henney was a commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the deputy director for the National Cancer Institute.
President's Cancer Panel is an advisory panel for the National Cancer Institute.
Harold Varmus is a director at the National Cancer Institute, was a director at the National Institutes of Health, and an advisory board member for the Earth Institute.
George Soros is an advisory board member for the Earth Institute, and Jim Yong Kim was a guest at his 2013 wedding.
Millennium Villages Project is a partner with the Earth Institute, and the United Nations (UN).
World Health Organization is a U.N. coordinating agency for world health.
Jim Yong Kim was a director, HIV-AIDS department for the World Health Organization, and a guest at George Soros’s 2013 wedding.
Kofi A. Annan was the secretary general for the United Nations (UN), a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and a trustee at the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).     
Rockefeller Foundation was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the World Health Organization.
David A. Hamburg is an adviser for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), Margaret A. Hamburg’s father, the president emeritus for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and a trustee emeritus at the Carter Center.
Newton N. Minow is an honorary trustee at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
R. Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.       
Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
Jimmy Carter is a co-founder & trustee at the Carter Center, and was an honorary co-chairman for the Millennium Promise.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Millennium Promise, the Human Rights Watch, and the Pew Charitable Trusts.
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, a benefactor at the Human Rights Watch, and married in 2013.
Amy Robbins Towers was a director at the Millennium Promise, is a director at the Human Rights Watch, and a board member for the CDC Foundation.
Bloomberg Family Foundation was a funder for the CDC Foundation, and the World Health Organization.
CDC Foundation is a Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a U.S. regulatory agency for world health.
World Health Organization is a U.N. coordinating agency for world health.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was a funder for the World Health Organization.
Jim Yong Kim was a director, HIV-AIDS department for the World Health Organization, and a guest at George Soros’s 2013 wedding.
Russell Group is the lobby firm for the Pew Charitable Trusts, the National Pork Producers Council, and the Hormel Foods Corporation.
Bill Lesher is a partner at the Russell Group, and was the assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Randy Russell is a partner at Russell Group, and a deputy assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
U.S. Department of Agriculture is the defendant in the Creekstone Farms Premium Beef vs. USDA.
Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC was the plaintiff in the Creekstone Farms Premium Beef vs. USDA.
Howard W. Buffett was a “special” assistant to the secretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is Howard G. Buffett’s son, and Warren E. Buffett’s grandson.
Howard G. Buffett is Howard W. Buffett’s father, and Warren E. Buffett’s son.
Warren E. Buffett is Howard W. Buffett’s grandfather, Howard G. Buffett’s father, a trustee & major donor for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, an adviser for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), and an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was a funder for the World Health Organization.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).     
Everytown for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety” group for guns.
Mayors Against Illegal Guns is a “Gun Safety” group for guns.
Americans for Responsible Solutions is a “Gun Safety” PAC for guns.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is a federal regulatory agency for guns.
Michael R. Bloomberg is the founder for Everytown for Gun Safety, a co-chair for Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the founder of the Bloomberg Family Foundation, was a contributor for the Americans for Responsible Solutions, and a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone.
Bloomberg Family Foundation was a funder for the CDC Foundation, and the World Health Organization.
CDC Foundation is a Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a U.S. regulatory agency for world health.
World Health Organization is a U.N. coordinating agency for world health.

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