Is the UK going to start putting cancer labels on Gin, Scotch Whisky, ale and cider? Because alcohol is not just a proven carcinogen but also toxic to a number of organs and a huge public health problem. It is a much, much larger health problem than bacon. The anti-meat lobby is extremely passionate about their cause. They have some strong arguments about the ethics of factory farming and the environmental impacts but it does make any proposal like this suspect because you just know that some of the proponents are more concerned about the ethics of meat eating than the health impacts.
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This got me wondering: If bananas are radioactive, and radiation can mutate cells and cause cancer... Can bananas cause cancer? 🤔
Perhaps, but the fiber cleans that bacon sandwich out of your colon quicker.
put the cancer warnings, like smoking people will still consume it.
Yeah but imagine having to explain to your daughter at breakfast, "Daddy, what's that on the label? What's cancer?"
"Don't worry about it, honey. This is just more government bullshit, like with COVID and Brexit. The Muslims are trying to make eating pork illegal. Have an extra portion. Don't let them tell you what to do."
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Makes sense, but I wonder if hiding it just makes people less aware overall Probably not a conversation for your child at breakfast though
I'm telling you now, if they do this, with the current political climate, people will goto farms that don't use "woke" labeling (god I hate that word)
A bunch of the stuff I buy has CA cancer warnings on it. When you start putting the warnings on common things, it makes the warnings meaningless...
Do any of the things I buy have a notable chance to cause caner? I have no fucking clue, because everything causes cancer in California.
That's something I've noticed too. There's not really any information about what parts of something to avoid or what the risk is or how you'd come into contact with it, but I remember seeing it everywhere when I lived there too, and I was like
"Everything in California including California is known to the state of California to cause cancer and reproductive harm."
I'm not saying it shouldn't be there at all, but at least wish it was a bit more like Material Safety Data Sheets that gives a bit more understanding to what you're getting into by interacting with various things.
Let me ask for fun, does toothpaste have a warning?
You know, I can't remember any toothpaste with that warning. So, win one for us I guess! ;p
damm, i was hoping for radium toothpaste in califorina.
then again the warning would probably be so tiny we wouldn't even be able to read it
Imagine brushing your teeth with a ‘may cause cancer’ warning. You think people would even care or just ignore it? ignorance is bliss is real
id still do it. mabye my teeth would glow.
Does that come with superpowers? I'd be brushing twice a day
no it just makes your teeth glow, but it also makes your bones brittle
so glow teeth are guaranteed? might be worth it
In the UK (not sure about anywhere else) you can buy bacon without Nitrates. ‘Naked Bacon’ is in sainsburys, tesco, etc. Been buying it for years.
i want the nitrates please, it tastes hell of a lot better.
No one is taking nitrates away from you.
forgot the /s
Noted, thank you
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