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 2013 – Is 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).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
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.
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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