Bacon Is Not The Enemy
Why you shouldn’t worry too much about processed meat and cancer
There aren’t many foods that have the cultural appeal of bacon. Whether it’s being plastered everywhere online, or served on a BLT in your local cafe, something about bacon has captured the attention of people around the world. It might have a bit to do about a very successful marketing campaign by Sigmund Freud’s nephew (yes, actually), it might be because we’ve idealized this cured meat as the peak of delectability.
Of course, it might just be that bacon is delicious.
But, according to news from across the world, bacon isn’t the savior that we thought it was. No, bacon — and all preserved meats, in fact — are actually killing you from the inside. It turns out that eating bacon gives you a 20% increased risk of bowel cancer, which, if you’re like me and enjoy bacon but don’t like cancer, sounds pretty damn terrifying.
Thankfully for all of us, the headlines were wrong. You can get back to your butties.
Bacon probably isn’t giving you cancer.
