Do We Have To Give Up Bacon?
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- The IARC has categorized processed meat as a definite carcinogen. But how dangerous is it really? Do we finally have to give up bacon?
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World Health Organization? WHO?
+Fried Keenan SUCH A LUST FOR HEALH! WHO!?!
WHO! (Read in an Irish accent)
+ScientaEstVox That's my line.
+Fried Keenan WHO's on 1st?
+Fried Keenan Doctor World Health Organization?
ive been waiting for this video i wanted a non biased scientific opinion about the matter. the news sucks at that
+shay campbell
To be fair, SciShow sucks on that sometimes too. Like with synthetic biology.
+shay campbell depends on where you're getting the news but i agree that majority of it is heavily biased which is why i was getting my news from the daily show for the longest time :P
+Inorganic Vegan CAn you please elaborate?
+shay campbell I'd recommend Healthcare Triage. Dr. Carroll, the host, is my go to for explanation whenever the mainstream media freaks out about something health related.
+Jacques du Plessis Watch there original gmo video, or the one on glow in the dark rats
THANK YOU for pointing out how those percentages work. It's way too easy for someone looking for views or ratings to twist the numbers to make them seem really shocking.
I doubt it's more cancerous than UA-cam comments.
So true
Or the Undertale fanbase... *flame shield activated*
***** I'm sorry, I don't care to argue with a 7 year old... Please don't reply...
Jaccobtw I think the biggest cancer is LeafyIsHere. A 20 year old man acting like a 13 year old bully, stage four cancer.
Yup
I think I'm going to go ahead and keep eating bacon...
+Borpheus Maximus i mean as long as you're not eating several pounds of it everyday you're probably going to be alright.
+patrick watkins if your eating pounds of it I think obesity would get you before the cancer
+Borpheus Maximus I'd avoid frozen microwavable meat products 1st. I've now had 2 doctors warn me about the risks of developing colorectal cancer if I don't cut that crap out of my diet. Thankfully, none of us will miss that shit all that much. But bacon? If I knew bacon would give me cancer on my 40th birthday (I'm 30 yrs old), I'd still eat the stuff on a semi-daily basis. Otherwise the terrorists win right?
even if the meat industry is responsible for 91% of the world's deforestation, most of the greenhouse gasses, the pain and suffering of billions of animals. I dare you watch farm to fridge, and cowspracy and still say that.
+The Physicist I saw "Earthlings" and yeah real brutal, but I try to only buy farm raised stuff, if I can. It's hard for most though because good meat is a lot more expensive than the stuff coming from what amounts to a Nazi death camp for animals...but way worse. We all need to take a good, hard look at what is going on in this world y'all...just sayin
when are we just going to admit that everything causes cancer and just fucking live our lives. if we live in fear of cancer are we really living anyway. #YOLO
exactly! what's the point of living long if it's all just miserable sad veganism? I would take 45 years of meat, animal products, risk and happiness over 80 years of fear filled salad munching
+Caleb The Fox im not trying to be mean or anything but if salad is the only vegan food that you can think of then I feel bad for you. most things people eat are from plants. and pretending that not having animal products makes life sad is just crap.
again im not trying to be a jerk but im sick of that kind of talk
@Caleb The Fox eating plant based doesn't have to be sad. There are sooo many great recipes out there. You definitely don't have to eat salad all time or even associate with the vegan community lol. I sure as hell don't.
+Caleb The Fox This, but different tack.
Everybody dies.
Living healthily won't keep you alive. It just delays death.... if you're lucky.
Harder thing to care about when you're aware of children dying of cancer.
+Kathryn Mercier As the video states, eating meat won't raise your risk by a significant amount. They are also speaking on 1 cancer.
You might as well never go outdoors since the sun can give skin cancer, sunscreen doesn't reduce your risk to 0% after all.
No, eating meat isn't to be compared to smoking. Smoking affects you rather quickly, exceptions are not common. On the other hand many people can live cancer free and enjoy their occasional family BBQ.
Though Caleb is being lite on their statement, they are very right in the message. Obviously vegans don't eat just salad, that was beside the point.
Yes it's sad when a loved one dies of anything at all, that is quite irrelevant. Might as well never drive because that gives you quite a high chance of dying, even because of other drivers.
I wrap myself in bacon and smoke a cigarette while sitting in a tanning booth
+Hercules Rockefeller I play Russian Roulette every day - a man's sport.
+Just Another
XD
I am just going to assume that you are talking about the game show
Hercules Rockefeller This comment made me hard.
Thank you Hank. I was trying to explain this to my elderly parents only about a week ago and I'm sure their eyes were just glazing over as I spoke. It'll be much easier if I can just sit them down and show them this video. Good job sir ;-)
One does not simply give up on bacon.
+Evan Neto2 Or, people will continue their own lifestyles and simply dropping meat is no going to change the way that companies process it. Look, I get that animals go through a hellish process in factories to be delivered, but honestly I am not dropping my meat because of that. Hell, if you consider what you're doing and if every suddenly did that, you'd be wasting literally TONS of meat that could be used to feed just about anyone. The key, I'd say here, is just stick with a balanced diet. Also, tell that to my family. They are both hunters and will regularly eat out at restaurants if they so choose. So, what, are they only HALF inconsiderate bastards for doing that? I like my veggies and all (brussel sprouts, asparagus, or broccoli with a bit of pepper and salt, yummy), but I'm not dropping meat because of vague moral arguments. Yes, animals can feel at a basic level. Yes, they go through mistreatment through factories. But I'm not letting it go to waste because of those arguments.
+Luke Koziol Non-sentient.
Plus we have to eat something, vegans simply limit the amount of harm they partake in. SIMPLE!
Earth Linger Alright, and again, if someone is set on keeping their own personal diet, this is not going to do anything to change it. Also, what about the vegetarians who happen to eat fish? Are they terrible people for harming them, or do fish not count in terms of harvesting animals as food?
***** I'm not speaking in favour of vegetarians or pescetarians, they are either ignorant or not in it for the ethics (even though veganism is supposed to be healthier than those two diets also).
Earth Linger Yeah, I know. But perhaps talking down to people is only going to do two things: piss them off and drive them AWAY from your advice. If you approach them with an informed and friendly demeanor, they may be more receptive. If not, well, you still tried. But ending your sentences in "SIMPLE!" is not it.
How about, at this point, we start to compile a list of what DOESN'T cause cancer?
1.) Stones
2.)...????
+Salokin92 granite causes cause cancer ... so the list is still empty
+Salokin92 Your list sucks. Crystalline silica (stone dust?) causes cancer, an occupational hazard for workers that deal with that sort of things, that's why they are required to wear protective equipment.
Please, brothers, improve my list ^^ I am scared that typing this message causes cancer :P
+Junior Lee If it has plastic in it...
+Salokin92 SOME of the noble gases? They're too stable to react in the body, there would be no interaction with the body at all. The noble gases that appear before Uranium that is as others would emit some form of radiation.
Thank you for making this clear for the all the crazy vegan fundamentalists who keep trying to conflate this report into "Meat Gives You Cancer".
it is isnt it...? but it doesnt make us stop eating meat anyway
@@roempoetliar7995 It might makes us eat a bit less, and eating a pound of meat a day is not that healthy in general, and very climate change inducing. So eating a bit less meat only has pros, no cons.
And if taste is the problem, the person that says that just sucks at cooking well.
Scientists: Bacon gives you cancer. Me: Only a sith deals in absolutes... I will do what i must.
First! Great and informative video, as always! Great job! :D
+KsersUnited Thank you!
No, thank you
+SciShow No, thank you! SciShow still somehow manages to be the most entertaining AND informative channel on youtube. I appreciate all the hard work you guys put into your videos, it definitely shows!
you, No thank
+SciShow I am definitely more informed, as I always an after one of your videos... But this time it's on how much I don't understand math. I need to restart the Khan Academy from Arithmetic... Dammit!
Is it really living if you don't eat bacon and meat?
Yes
Of course! Because then both you and the 🐷🐷🐷 are breathing and learning and loving 💗😌💙
+Ben Holthaus
Yes, it is. I haven't had meat in a long time, and I'm fine. How empty is your life that it's defined by meat?
Yes, lol I enjoy my life without bacon..
lol someone can't take a joke.
I lost my dad to colorectal cancer, so adding it that colorectal cancer is detectable super early on! Please tell your 50+ family members to get checked often!
You could tell me that eating red meats will give me a 50% chance of getting cancer, and I would laugh while finishing my steak dinner.
So, you still alive?
"Find what you love, and let it kill you." -Charles Bukowski
"Okay." - Me eating bacon
I don't even eat bacon so...
+adeena6 My god, how do you live with yourself?
lolkins Lol idk, didn't grow up eating it nor want to. Preference and religion I guess :)
+adeena6 Well, you have a 1 in like 1000 chance less of getting cancer than me, because I rarely eat bacon.
Nex Zaros Hey, every percent counts!
adeena6 That's not a percent... it's a permilia.
Wouldn't this discovery bump down the chance of someone to develop cancer if they don't eat processed meat? And, by extension, not even increase the chance by almost 1% for those that do. I imagine the majority of average American families do eat processed meat fairly regularly, before this study was published. So the 5% chance would be including the risk from eating processed meat in the majority of people.
So, wouldn't this study merely show that eating processed meat contributes to the 5% chance? (And, depending on the size of the population who do eat processed meat compared to those that don't, possibly incrementally increase it)
"If you're eating pounds of hot dogs every day, then yeah, you might want to cut back."
Am i the only one who doesnt like bacon?
+ppaxlu Nope! I always feel less American saying it though.
+ppaxlu Nope. I hate it too!
It's good but not great. I prefer fish or chicken.
' Bridge ' Because we share a different opinion about a piece of pig butt?
I think bacon is gross. If you like it, that's fine, but I don't have to like it just because you do. And just because I don't means I don't deserve to live--that I should die?
That is so rude. Understand people have different opinions and it's okay for people to not like what you do like. No one deserves to die for an opinion. Don't force yours on me and don't tell me I deserve to die. That is so rude and immature.
+P0CK3TB00K I think bacon is haram x3
How does wood dust cause cancer? Is it because it blocks the lungs too much? Or is there a chemical that does something malicious?
+Deebo Molina If I remember right, it's the cellulose that may be contained in the wood...but it has been a while.
+Deebo Molina Well just think about how dangerous asbestos is, and its danger purely comes from the way it fragments into small, sharp dust particles.
+Deebo Molina Because alot of wood planks/materials arent sold as raw wood/material for example MDF is treated with Formaldehyde resins to make it fire and moisture resistant but that stuff is cancer inducing stuff the same goes for other types of wood materials
keyboard scientists to the rescue!
RuggedALAN Nobody claimed to actually know the answer except SYCKODELICUS. We were just engaging in conversation.
I was worried that bacon would be much more carcinogenic than that. Thank goodness.
I wouldn't even care if it was, i'd still eat it.
He makes it sound less scary than It truly is. ua-cam.com/video/2bKpGMShyYk/v-deo.html
Tell this to Vegan Gains lol
damn son!
Action plan 41B-126:
Make an article about bacon causing cancer
People believe that bacon believes cancer
Sales goes down
Price of bacon goes down
Creator of the article now spends less on bacon
Success!
Give up bacon? Yeah like I'm going to end the one last meaningful relationship left in my life...
BinkieMcFartnuggets SAME!
BinkieMcFartnuggets. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!? Please come back and make more vidoes!
Eat bacon, but get cancer? Gimme the cancer, it’s nothing compared to bacon withdrawal.
BinkieMcFartnuggets dude, a relationship with a dead animal... I’m sorry...
Thanks How it's Made for showing me how sausages are made years ago. I stopped eating most processed meat ever since.
Everyone, please go vegetarian. It helps keep the price of meat down for me.
same
WJohnM hell yeah!
they will just subsidize cancer causing meat even more. if you had to pay it when you bought it instead of in taxes you'd realise it's a lot to pay for cancer
Meat doesnt cause cancer. Who is propaganda
How about giving up bacon for the compassion of the sentient beings that has to suffer and die to create that meal?
+Opteryx Industries You wish to give compassion to potatoes and lettuce too, after all they were living beings before you killed them you monster!
I understand what you're saying. That's an ethical issue though. Not what this video was meant to be about.
+Opteryx Industries How about fucking off and stop using appeals to emotion to tug at people's heartstrings. If people want to eat meat, let them, if they don't, fine. Forcing your worldview on others is not a good way to go.
+Opteryx Industries pigs are no more sentient than a crop of lettuce, all life is equal whether plant or animal or fungus of protista or bacteria
I'm not forcing any world view on you, I'm just asking you a question. You're clearly upset, experiencing a little cognitive dissonance there, buddy?
Does anyone have any bacon? I ate all my pocket bacon on the way here.
Sure just give me a second to cook for you.
+OMGItsJousis Your chest doesn't hurt, doesn't it? You might wanna see a time traveler if it does.
Maho911 I need to find a time traveler? Better hit the muffin button.
+OMGItsJousis With your doctor who
I was thinking someone who wears Trunks, but he works too.
Totally worth it.
Idk
How
Eh not really
Bacon cannot be stopped. all hail bacon
ALL HAIL THE BACON! BACON ARMY
Bacon can never be stopped cause it will stop you first
STOP EATING BACON!
The poor rats getting induced with cancer :(
I hope a cure is in store for them as well!!
Hm, how about, apart from looking into the the health aspect of eating meat(if you dont want to know what meat and other animal products can do to your body: dont browse pubmed), one could look into the environmental and moral aspect?
Arent we all supposed to be stopping the global warming for our offspring by any means possible?
Arent we supposed to be the moral animal?
+Michael Govard I do my part one cow at a time
+darkdragonsoul99
Dude, by buying beef, you force the cattle industry to breed more cows. Just saying. You're not helping.
*****
Well, apparently you arent very well read on evolutionary psychology if you dont realise that humans are, by nature, moral beings.Good reads are "Moral Origins" and "The Moral Animal"
Wow,so many fallacies in one text.
1.There is no humane way of death as there is no humane way of rape.If i slip a pill to a woman and she never knows of the incident does it justify rape?
2.Naturalistic fallacy.Its so common among meateaters and homophobes, just google it.
3.I really dont understand your last point.
+darkdragonsoul99 So funny.Whats next? "Bacon" ?
***** Justice is a human concept, so its irrelevant? Logic?
Rape and murder are definetely separate things that have nothing to do with one another cause its two ethicallly wrong actions acted upon a being without its consent, there really is no connection between them.
"Wiped out" - is that what you call controlled genocide? Or rather one instance of a catastrophe where the population of species dies?
"All life has the same directive, survive, thrive, and eliminate competition, period."
Yep, like in human population.All the fat, mentally/physically ill, old,weak people (which make up a big proportion of the population) are just a side product of the "competition" you describe.Must be that.Or maybe that there is only little to no selection among the human population, who knows.
Much better explanation of these findings than I've seen to date in the mainstream news or in Dnews!
Thank you so much for knowing how percentages work. I'm so tired of news reports not knowing how math works.
Thank you for this very reasonable and educational video. My first reaction to hearing "red meat = cancer" in the media was to freak out a little bit. You explanation of the issue helped me regain some perspective, as they so often do. So, thanks.
Great video, but the argument should not be if one takes the risk of eating these products. The argument should be (shouldn't even be one in the first place) why love one animal and eat the other, to temporarily satisfy the palate at the cost of a living animal.
+FitnessReality Because our bodies evolved to eat meat? It's more natural than just eating plants. Also, our pets tend to be carnivores, and organisms of the trophic levels 3, 4, and 5 tend to be very inefficient to farm as they themselves eat other animals.
+Nex Zaros No we have not, check out this video which challenges that assumption, then read through the sources cited nutritionfacts.org/video/the-problem-with-the-paleo-diet-argument/
Karan Lal I didn't mean we evolved to live eating it, I meant we evolved to eat it as if we didn't eat meat in the old days we would not have been able to support out brains.
Fair enough but I think you shall find that factually incorrect given some research, pretty sure that link covers that assertion.
+FitnessReality Your right! Fitness reality, we should not eat eat one animal and not the other, it's just inhumane.
We shall eat ALL the animals.
Accept penguins, their cool.
Thanks for clearing that up, Hank. Since most of us don't intuitively grok grams, it may be worth stating just how small 50 grams is.
Glorious. I AM more informed now, and thank you SciShow for being there to do so. Until now I had no idea *whatsoever* how the WHO classified carcinogens (as I imagine many people don't), and now I know exactly how much fear of my refrigerator is appropriate - thank you.
Welp, guess I better go vegan now!
SAID NO ONE
Speak for yourself! 🥝🍏🍎🍍
Thanks for this video. An objective, unbiased, logical, scientific critique and analysis of these recent fad studies. A lot of people are advocating abstinence of meat (mainly vegans), others refuting/denying the importance of the study.
Being healthy is all about moderation and avoiding unhealthy habits (smoking, binge-drinking/eating, reckless behaviour). Being vegan can be more beneficial than being a non-vegan but it's important to get the essential vitamins and nutrients you would have gotten from eating meat from an alternative source. Non-vegans can be equally as healthy but its important to eat plenty of vegetables, fruits, dairy products, cereals and grains (not store bought breakfast cereals) with your meat, and of course, all in moderation.
I've been subscribed to SciShow for a couple of months now, and it's probably my best subscription on youtube to this date. Thank you a lot for making me smarter on a regular basis, keep doing what you do, you're great at it :D
Kind regards from Norway/Kosovo
Living a short life but enjoying it > Living a sad long life with restrictions on the fun parts
SciShow,Please do an episode on ethics and animals.
+spb Nov. 6 is my birthday. So consider this my birthday wish.
Hey me too! Happy post birthday day!
Yay! Cheers to us who are kept up late in concern of moral treatment of animals on our birthday!
Realsies though, happy birthday!
I honestly don't know what you're talking about with "killing innocent animals in Virginia". No, I don't support PETA. They don't seem interested in conversation.
How to handle animal populations is a tricky issue, I grant you. But it's a satellite issue. I want to first discuss if it is, in principle, prima facie acceptable to unnecessarily cause animals to suffer.
The channel is called scishow, that's short for science show, science doesn't include ethics
What's with all of this crap about bacon?
It's pig meat, big whoop. Irish bacon probably isn't any different from what's in America. (Apart from much higher amounts of fats and salts). Despite that, I'm not even crazy about it. I've eaten it a couple of times, and it's alright I guess, but why is it that any American seems to go completely nuts even at the sight of bacon? Damn 'Merica, you scary.
I'm from Hungary, but.. yumm.. BACON IS THE GOLDEN FOOD... srysly. I love bacon so much, cancer or not. I eat it almost every week, often 2 times a week.
Damn.
+Deranged Scout I am an American and I am not a big fan of bacon.
+Deranged Scout I think it was more of kinda a joke that got out of hand and people took it seriously so it kinda has a placebo effect and makes bacon seem better than it is
+Deranged Scout People's love of bacon is more of a very wide-spread inside joke. bacon isn't awesome, but it tends to be exaggerated.
I thought the case of a man getting cancer from a tapeworm was extremely telling. Such a huge clue to scientists on how to eradicate cancer.
I feel like a doctor and chemist after watching these clips. Time to start my practice.
everything causes cancer...
my grandad had processed meat all his life and never had cancer
Finger Licking Goodness it's a 5.9% chance. The majority of people won't get cancer
Spoo Rin he's dead, care now?
Science channel with most of the comments being something like : Bacon tho, Bacon, air causes cancer and mmm bacon. RIP Humanity, you had a good run.
Sci show has become one of the only reasons why I visit UA-cam.
THE WHO declares they Won't Get Fooled Again
I'm a fat lesbian vegan feminist so I'm good.
I had a pack of bacon left in my fridge when I first read the report. I made a decision right then and there to cut processed meats from my diet, but first, I fried up that whole pack of bacon and enjoyed the shit out of it.
I think the main problem lies in the fact that most people are willing to risk but when it comes to illness then the finger pointing begins and no one wants to accept the end results
NOT BACON ANYTHING BUT BACON.
+Dangerous Bros
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+pipnina u rite
pipnina
aight.
Thank you very much, SciShow. Will be referring this video to all sorts of misinformed people.
+Fernando Sato Will you also be sharing to the misinformed people that cancer isn't the major problem processed meats bring? Rather the astronomically high rate of death from heart disease solely caused from poor diet...
Huh...is that so? Short answer is: no. I'm not concerned with peoples' diet, that's not what this is about - I feel like you missed the point of it all.
I didn't miss the point, you just sounded like someone about to go off and promote bacon again. Let the people believe that bacon gives you cancer, they seem more scared of it then heart disease the retards...
So, what is the point then? Ah whatever dude, let's drop this. Take care.
Fernando Sato people die from heart disease via shitty diets. Processed meats causing cancer isn't the major problem, that's the point.
Actually, most people only have a 2, maybe 3% chance of getting this cancer unless they're unhealthy for other reasons, which only increases your chance of getting colorectal cancer by .36-.54%, not very much at all.
Doing a 100 slice bacon challenge whilst watching this, tastes good
My grandad was a huge meat lover until he as diagnosed with cancer 3 months ago. The hospital told him to start buying more fruit and vegetables, swap dairy for vegan substitutes, and cut out both white and red meat to a bare minimum. Since his change in diet he is doing amazing. Most of the meat eaters in the comments are in denial.
So sorry to hear that.. Hope he recovers soon, a healthier diet does indeed reverse those sort of diseases, i know that for a fact :) he will be getting better i promise! 🎈
thank you lovely! it means a lot, I myself am on a whole foods plant based diet and it makes me feel great. hope you have a good day :)
***** That's awesome! Hope you live a healthy happy life enjoying your beautiful family :)
thank you so much sweetie, you're such a kind soul, exactly the same to you!!^-^
Still a very doubtful claim, I would fire a doctor spouting out that type of bs instead of focusing on chemo/radio therapy and surgery. Sorry but he's definitely not doing amazing physically, he has cancer.
Error at 1:39. The 5% average for Americans already includes processed meat in their diets. What's on screen should be changed to:
"For the average American, eating 50 grams MORE processed meat a day would make that 5% chance become 5.9%."
skevoid Stop trying trying to justify bacon. My dad ate it everyday for breakfast and had a heart attack early so shut up please.
May i’m sure he also drank water would you say that water caused his heart attack
i paused this video half way through to make and then eat some bacon
Another fantastic video! Informative, but not preachy; dispels misconceptions rather than reinforcing them. Thank you, SciShow!
Wow! Now bacon gives you cancer -_- *breaking news* water is now the leading cause of cancer! Scientist predict 4% tumor growth.
+Rollerzs learder You know, water contains H2O!!! And scientists also say there are Na+ and Cl- ions in there! DO YOU KNOW HOW DANGEROUS CHLORINE IS? And the worst part is, water is also highly addicting, and being in withdrawal for even just a few days will kill anyone! IT'S BEST TO NOT EVEN START DRINKING THIS SHIT!!!
+Kim Philipp Möllgaard Lol xD!
+Kim Philipp Möllgaard That was awesome. :')
+Rollerzs learder BUY OUR SAFE AND SPECIAL BOTTLED WATER FROM CANADIAN GLACIER TODAY 2 LOWER THE CHANCE OF CANCER! (_a message from the bullshit commercial society, we make blatant lies to gullible idiots and steal money from them when something huge that no one understands happens (kind of like what we did with Ebola) and are somehow still allowed on television_)
Thanks for the medical advise xD but I'm switching to Fiji water its like water but with less calories.
This is the most Jewish comment section I have ever seen
Thanks for shedding some light on this subject because people have been going nuts over this lately.
This was nicely done. I was glad to hear that they've stopped embalming corpses with formaldehyde, if it causes cancer. Wouldn't want any of those corpses getting cancer, after all.
Why does Sci Show always avoid talking about the environmental impacts of eating meat? Water shortage- meat. Global warming? 30-50% meat. Water pollution, ocean acidification, mass rainforest destruction..... I could go on and on. Yes, this was a heath episode, but Sci Show seems to have a blind spot here...
+Christina Casebeer Because they're not funded by Vegans, or militant environmentalists. This is a general education kind of a show. Not a platform to promote ideology.
+Chip Hitler How does educating people about serious environmental issues promote ideology? These are real impacts, as reported by the UN.
+Christina Casebeer
Watch their episode on overpopulation. They explained that we don't have enough food to go around because of meat-eaters.
+Chip Hitler so ''general education'' means ignoring facts? explains a lot about the world.
+Inorganic Vegan I missed that, thanks!
Just came in, living causes cancer. Rip
What I find funny are the nation specific responses to the study.
USA: OMG! We may have to give up bacon!
Germany: OMG! We may have to give up *sausages*!
(really, all the news articles here were about sausages ;) )
That 18% OF THE BASE RISK explanation was the #1 most important thing that literally every news outlet in the world forgot to mention when the report came out, leading to everyone freaking the f*ck out...
My meat is precious to me. Nothing can make me stop eating what I love.
+Spoo Rin Bacons fucking addictive man
People are acting so immature, just acknowledge the bacon is unhealthy and move on with your life, stop throwing hissy fits or make stupid statements like "everything causes cancer blah blah blah".. people aren't giving you this information for you to stop eating bacon, if you want to eat bacon then just do, but stop acting like doing research about what causes cancer is suddenly a bad thing.
Arian hmn well everything probably does influence cancer but we aren't sure by how much, we are sure that bacon can cause cancer and having 50g per day will increase your overall risk by 1%, so if we made 100 clones of you, one of them would get cancer from bacon, while 50% would get cancer from something, it's up to you if you think reducing bacon is worth it to make yourself 1% less likely to get it, to me I think it's worth it, I've reduced processed meats to once or twice a week, some weeks I won't even have it, hopefully I can avoid it
They didn't stop using formaldeheyd, it is still used the only difference is that we take extra steps like not using more than needed but until a same quality and economically viable chemical comes along to replace it, formaldeheyd will still be used to preserve bodies for funerals.
On totally different news: Hank, your shirt is absolutely awesome. I didn't notice it not being plaid until one minute to the end of the episode. I love how it is conformal and alternative at the same time.
Could you make a well informed video about factory farming and the effects it has on our environment, too?
You wouln't like it. Because it wouldn't confirm yout biased enough. It does suck, it just doesn cause 51% of global warming or something like that.
No I've had enough anxiety depression and night terrors for one day
If any of you know a diehard vegan, make a fake news article titled 'Kale causes cancer' show it to them and film their reaction.
+Pope-Eye They wouldn't fall for it. Even if it was 100% true they wouldn't believe it if it went against the dogma they've established.
+Pope-Eye If you know a diehard environmentalist, show them a real article backed up by serious evidence titled 'Animal agriculture is a leading contributor to climate change' and watch them not give a shit because bacon and corndogs.
*****
I don't have any problem whatsoever with the people to abstain from meat on moral principles, I lean that way myself.
I just despise all the pseudoscience out there espousing veganism as the one true, best, most healthy diet for humans. It simply isn't.
I think the moral reasons would be enough justification.
I don't know how to make a fake website, but I can tell you one thing. Cabbage and kale make thyroid too fat.
+James Glover neither is strictly eating meat
Thank you. The IARC worded the press release poorly
First, there were bacon machines in bathrooms: "push button, receive bacon". Now it's "eat bacon, get butt cancer"
A sad day for hand dryers.
Oh, well. I hate Bacon anyways.
*Drops Microphone*
5.9% cancer risk or life without processed meat... I'll have an extra helping of cancer risk please.
Meat products don't cause cancer, hell only a few specific types of meat have any proven link if any
***** meat is a cornerstone of many healthy diets, sure you can live without it but to do so recquires a very specific diet that few can easily afford
***** what? my claims are backed by common knowledge. "meat only causes problems" mind linking the study for that?
***** i never said common sense i said common knowledge
***** common knowledge is something already established and a source isn't required, for example, plants grow upwards, plants use photosynthesis to obtain energy, organisms need energy to live etc.
I have a friend, big health nut, makes spinach and kale smoothies for lunch nearly every day, only ever has sugar with his coffee and tries to eat as organic as possible and dances for exercise. He won't quit smoking though. I'll continue eating Bacon when the mood hits me because atleast I'll love what I eat.
Look everything is fine, as long as it is done in moderation. That rings true for almost everything from economics, exercise, nutrition, sleeping, and a number of hobbies.
Thanks for the informative vid (as always). :) So maybe bacon won't increase your colon cancer risk by a whole lot but it's still terrible for the environment (not to mention cruel to the piggy who died for it). Not saying you have to go vegan just that we could all do with reducing the amount of meat we eat for the good of the planet. Y'know, save it for special occasions not everyday binges.
@EpicMealTime
Sharkdog98 LOL 😂
I believe free radicals are not ions, they are reactive compounds with unpaired electrons...
People should really attend mandatory classes on basic statistics... XD
Sounded like this episode came from somebody who just can't give up that bacon 🙄
Fusion ?
Fusion why did you think I eat bacon? What kind of a fool are you, i'm vegan
Parnian good girl. *pets you on the head*
What is it with all these dudes in the comments whom are obsessed with bacon?
I'm ok with this. Lesson; eat more chicken instead of bacon.
robwow Dusk gaming yes
robwow Dusk gaming Eat more grains and beans
Or we could just not eat, right? I mean, we can either eat cancer-giving food (and if you look into it deep enough, everything probably gives you cancer) or just starve; we're going to die either way, right?
robwow Dusk gaming Beans and fruit don't cause cancer
cool, I like fruit!
I feel like the FDA does around asking cancer patients, "have you eaten ______ in the past twenty years?" and if they say yes then it causes cancer.
I REALLY like how you made the distinction of the 18% chance higher than the typical 5% chance of getting cancer. It would increase the awesomeness of all things science if the base % were included in the increase or decrease statistic. So in this example, say something like "Eating X amount of processed food every day increases your chances of getting cancer from 5% to 5.9%, an 18% increase." I know it's a bit of a mouth full, but the extra information is so incredibly... well, informative.
good thing i'm Vegan ^^
Curious question, from curious cat, would you eat insects? If it wasn't so, icky, just for proteins sake, would you?
+Corner Universe yes Yes would deffinetly eat insects as they are a good souce for protein and can be found littlerly everywere. and super easy to cook to :) ^^
+Lukas Simonsen and i am not agiainst people eating animals :)
+Lukas Simonsen You're not a vegan, you're a plant-based eater. Vegan is an animal rights orientated term, just informing you.
+Karan Lal Seeing as you're not against people eating animals
Anyway, vegetarians are laughing right now...
pickled vegetables, and many root vegetable contain large amounts of cancer causing heavy metals, enjoy.
+christopher Christos Lol
Yes that one percent of cancer maybe is really terrifying
Back in the eras when the processed meat was invented, you were very lucky to live enough to see any side effects due to consuming it.
Sounds like Hank needs to watch the documentaries Earthlings and Cowspiracy!
So smoking a few cigarattes per year is totally fine? Even for children? Because it increases the cancer risk only a tiny bit?
+lovingboarding Well, if you can keep it to only a few per year then the risks for cancer can be low. But there are other health problems related to smoking cigaretts, and cigaretts have a tendancy to make you smoke more than a few a year once you start.
Jensaw101 Like red meat.
Why isn't the recommendation for smoking to cut back to a "healthy" level? But rather to give it up entirely?
lovingboarding Except that the ammount of "healthy" smoking is zero, if you account for everything other than cancer as well.
Jensaw101 Same for red meat.
lovingboarding You may be equating sunlight to x-rays here.
Go vegan!!!!!
Cute piggy profile pic! I hope to have a pet pig someday :)
+Mahalakshmi Balasubramanian
Nah
+Man With A Shoe do you like dogs or own a dog?
+sweetiepie9411 thank you :0)
+Valen son veganism isn't about knowledge, it's about compassion. get your facts straight. let me take you, put you through the slaughterhouse system and see how you like it.. then you tell me if it's fair or not.
Uh, Hank? Licensed embalmer here. We definitely still use formaldehyde when embalming. Pretty much standard practice here in the States. Might want to correct that bit at 4:19. :)
I conclude, every stupid news article that comes out, SciShow releases a new video. xD