If you read the article, you seem to have missed the point.
On Aug 3, 8:23 pm, BB47 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can bacon be considered a necessary evil? Am I too simple to be in
> this group? I love bacon but I avoid it whenever I am able.
> But let me tell you, bacon adds flavor to certain things like nobody's
> business. Is it nobody's business? I don't know. I think it should
> be a personal choice. Is it basically bad for you? I think it
> probably is. Certainly not something you want to eat everyday if your
> goal is a really long life. Are there exceptions to that? Probably
> Do I want to live a really long life? Not really. But ask me when I
> am really close to the end. I might want to extend it. Can't promise,
> but maybe. If you told me it was the bacon, I might have to accept
> it. It sure was good.
>
> Is the goal of life to live long? Like 90 something? It doesn't
> look that great to me, but being that life is the only game in town,
> it might be good enough. What if you sacrificed every single really
> good tasting, good feeling thing in life just to live to 90? Was it
> worth it? I don't think so.
>
> On Aug 3, 7:31 pm, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > First, a lay of the land by a former FDA head:
>
> > "Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler: “The End of Overeating: Taking
> > Control of the Insatiable American Appetite”
> > A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns
> > that the direct medical costs of obesity total about $147 billion a
> > year. That amounts to nine percent of all US medical costs. It’s also
> > over $50 billion more than the annual spending on cancer...."
>
> > for the rest of this story, go
> > to:http://www.democracynow.org/2009/8/3/former_fda_commissioner_david_ke...
>
> > And now for the weapons:
>
> > "From the McDonald’s McGriddle to Wendy’s “Baconator” to “baconnaise”
> > to bacon-infused vodka, bacon has become a ubiquitous ingredient in
> > many diets in this era of extreme food combinations. Arun Gupta of The
> > Indypendent writes, “Behind the proliferation of bacon offerings is a
> > confluence of government policy, factory farming, the boom in fast
> > food and manipulation of consumer taste that has turned bacon into a
> > weapon of mass destruction.” ..."
>
> > for the rest of this story go
> > to:http://www.democracynow.org/2009/8/3/arun_gupta_on_bacon_as_a- Hide
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