When the World Health Organization says something, you usually listen, so when the WHO classifies processed red meat—like bacon!—as a carcinogen, AHHHHHHHHH. But if you read beyond the headlines, you’d see that the bacon cancer link is very, very small, and the WHO classification is a bureaucratic artifact suddenly thrust into the bacon-obsessed Internet’s limelight.
Bacon? No, Not My Bacon!
When the World Health Organization says something, you usually listen, so when the WHO classifies processed red meat---like bacon!---as a carcinogen, AHHHHHHHHH.
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