fuck em

From that all I got was that having loads and loads of meat is bad but having it in moderation is ok. Like literally every other damn food.

But WHO still compared processed meat to asbestos -_- 

Like for fuck's sake. Asbestos!? I know you need to try to get people to eat healthy and live a balanced nutritional lifestyle but comparing it to asbestos just makes me say you're a moron that's trying to fear monger to get what you want.

And basically everything can give you cancer these days apparently. (hyperbole) 

Oohh that's another thing that pisses me off. But it may be the article that did it and there may actually be numbers.

15-18% of what? 1 in 6 billion? 1 in 10? We have no freaking idea. It seems that WHO is talking out their ass to get people to eat better.

Asbestos is shit that goes into your lungs and slowly cuts you apart from the inside.  I don't think bacon does that.

If it does...

Then worth it!

Pigs enjoy bacon. Fact.

Lot of misinformation being tossed around by the media.

Too much of anything is a health risk, one of those health risks is cancer. That has been known for aeons already. Same as too little from something is a health risk. The message isn't meat gives you cancer, the message is too much meat (and again, it's not just every kind of meat is the same) increases the risk of cancer. Which is extremely low to begin with. And a [insert random numer]% increase of that low risk doesn't mean much. A 100% increase in risk when the average risk is say for example 1% is still only 2%.

Risk of cancer =/= cancer.

As was said in this thread, sports for example decrease the risk of cancer. Same as having a balanced, healthy diet overall reduces the risk of cancer. Guess what, a balanced, healthy diet also includes meats (or supplements for vegetarians (whose longterm health effects have not been thoroughly studied I might add). Other studies have shown that test groups compromised of health conscious people live longer than the average populace regardless of vegetarian of omnivore diet and that no statistical significant difference in health risks and mortality was observed between the two.

So no, eating meat isn't unhealthy at all. Eating unhealthy is *le gasp* unhealthy.

Send it to Putin, let him know we are ready to take him on. The message will be clear.

As for all this health talk, news flash people, if your shoveling down meat and bacon all day and doing nothing but sitting on your fat ass a heart attack is gonna take you out LONG before any cancer does. So yeah. As has been said, calm down and eat stuff in moderation. It is pretty simple. If you have the time to excersize do it. I eat whatever I want, and still have difficulty gaining weight. Now granted, some of that is genetics, but the fact that I am very active is for the most part what allows me to consume so much and have to actively try to gain weight.