WAR! Industry rebels ahead of WHO report declaring red and processed meats ‘cause cancer’ - including sausages and bacon

The food war is about to get mean..

A WHO report is going to label certain processed meats to be as bad as smoking..

The food industry is fighting back early.

While industry groups are preparing for a damaging blow to consumer confidence as a result, The North American Meat Institute (Nami) has accused the IARC of “dramatic and alarmist over-reach,” CNBC reported.

Nami president Barry Carpenter said: “Red and processed meats are among 940 substances reviewed by IARC found to pose some level of theoretical ‘hazard’.

“Only one substance, a chemical in yoga pants, has been declared by IARC not to cause cancer,” he claimed.

Yoga pants.

Meat.

And the food industry:

It’s about to get mean.

WAR! Industry rebels ahead of WHO report declaring red and processed meats ‘cause cancer’ - including sausages and bacon

Unfit for Human Consumption: How nearly 9 million pounds of bad meat escaped into the food supply

To say the CNN report is troubling is an understatement..
Here’s the basic information as reported:

CNN exclusive: A meat processing plant in California was buying diseased dairy cows and processing them when government inspectors weren’t there, federal officials tell CNN.

After the cows were killed, employees at Rancho Feeding Corp., based in Petaluma, California, would hide the warning signs of cancer by trimming off diseased parts, using a fake stamp of approval or even replacing the heads of sick cows with ones from healthy animals, the officials say

In case that didn’t settle in, they’d REPLACE THE HEADS OF SICK COWS WITH HEALTHY ONES… read that?

And things like this don’t help either: We also learn that one of the government inspectors – someone responsible for protecting consumers from bad meat – was having a romantic relationship with a plant foreman..
Unfit for Human Consumption: How nearly 9 million pounds of bad meat escaped into the food supply

Derek Nance has eaten nothing but raw meat for five years.

He also, as you can see, brushes his teeth with animal fat..

Nance says he’s never been healthier.

And if that’s all not zany enough, his girlfriend is a vegetarian! 

The odd couple indeed. 

Teeth to prove.

God bless Derek Nance.  He looks a little bit like Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer for Iron Maiden with a little vampire thrown in

Report on U.S. Meat Sounds Alarm on superbugs in US meat..

Data show a sizable increase in the amount of meat contaminated with antibiotic-resistant forms of bacteria, like salmonella, E. coli and campylobacter.

That’s right. Bacteria.. resistant to anything.

Eat up.

Time to go vegan?

Report on U.S. Meat Sounds Alarm on superbugs in US meat..

Reuters reports: - Researchers have found high levels of bacteria in meat commonly found on U.S. grocery store shelves, with more than half of the bacteria resistant to multiple types of antibiotics, according to a study released on Friday.

Reuters reports: - Researchers have found high levels of bacteria in meat commonly found on U.S. grocery store shelves, with more than half of the bacteria resistant to multiple types of antibiotics, according to a study released on Friday.

Where's the beef? Apparently not Taco Bell

A lawsuit says beef at Taco Bell doesn’t constitute real meat. Cows were elated until they found out they’d still be ground up, but just mixed with water, wheat oats, soy lecithin, maltodrextrin, anti-dusting agent and modified corn starch. Mooo.

Where's the beef? Apparently not Taco Bell

Researchers say: Fish can count!

Researchers say: Fish can count!