Official: Living will kill you
HEALTH WARNING: IF YOU ARE ALIVE TODAY YOU HAVE A 100% CHANCE OF DYING.
By Wilson Smillie, October 2015
Yes, its a shock but it’s an important, if inconvenient, fact that you should know, because we in the rich sector of the world act as if living forever is a right.
Yesterday, the World Health Organisation “WHO” (there should be a ? after that acronym) issued a long trailed report that told everyone who’d listen that “processed meat products and red meat are a ‘probable cause of cancers,’” and that people who eat more than 70g per day have an 18% greater chance of contracting a cancer and dying from it, than people who don’t.
To be specific (because it wasn’t clear unless you read the small print), processed meat has been categorised, globally, as a “Class 1 carcinogen”. This food group includes: sausage meat, bacon, ham, haggis, pork pies, smoked meats, smoked fish (smoking food is ‘processing’), ready meals and just about anything that isn’t still mooing, baa’ing or horking.
Red meat (including pork, but excluding chicken, duck or other poultry) is officially categorised as a ”Class 2A carcinogen” meaning you’ve live slightly longer before dying. BTW, the same organisation categorises uncooked poultry as “Class 1″ along with sunlight, air, alcohol and other everyday carcinogens like mercury and lead.
A few champagne ecologist socialist vegan bi-sexual atheists of my acquaintance have annouced they’re immediately giving up eating in order to stay alive and they beseech all like-minded, wealthy, city-dwelling, Westernised, higher-order-socialised humans to follow them. The same people suggested that the under-nourished, low-income, schemie-living, benefit-claiming, not-working class can carry on eating what they like because we’ll be better off without them. Social engineering by stealth.
So the jury’s in, sausages are the new cancer-sticks, taking over from cigarettes.
The food industry immediately went on the offensive (there’s a clue in the sentence; ‘industry’) deploring the catch-all nature of this announcement and like it or not, they have a point. What about well-husbanded organic meat that’s been smoked for instance? There’s plenty of rich, red, pink and white meat out there and we humans have been eating it for millennia because it gives us more energy than calorie-poor vegetables, and yes, our ancestors 250,000 years ago might have got cancer as a result, but the odds then of dying from starvation or being flattened by a rhino were much higher.
So this announcement is mainly aimed at those who can choose what they want to eat; three or more times every day: who don’t have to hunt it, farm it, kill it or process it.
The WHO, by its nature, looks at the macro-level of foodstuffs consumed by all humans on the planet, or more specifically, by rich humans in the developed world who have the financial means to choose - they also have the financial resources to pay for research. This news is a correlation of a number of research projects that have been undertaken over the last, maybe 50 years, by a wide range of scientists with an even wider range of agendas to service, and the WHO’s pronouncement that there is “statistical proof” is meant to be the call-to-arms to do something about it.
Like what? Stop eating, stop living and sit down inside your protective cocoon and exist for ever? One of the really dangerous stealth killers of the human animal is alcohol in its various, human-engineered (’processed’) forms. Even the high-order humans drink like fish ... and, if it was as bad as it's painted, they wouldn’t drink it.
But the biggest killer of humans across the planet today isn’t food, tobacco, heroin, alcohol or botulinus toxin ...
Its sleep.
More people die in their sleep than any other way. Should the WHO issue a worldwide call to inform people of the dangers of sleeping?
“There’s a 95% chance that if you’re over eighty and lived a fulfilling life eating pies, you’ll go to bed tonight and not wake up.”