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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (10 children)

as little as one hot dog a day

That is a lot processed meat to be eating if its every single day. Who is buying more than a pack of sausages per person each week? Also hot dog sausages are surely some of the worst sausages for being highly processed. Don't forget about the strange bread used in hot dogs too. That must have a shitload of stuff added to it or it would be stale and mouldy. Bread shouldn't still be fresh days later.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

But I only buy boars head so it obviously safe.

/s, although I did reluctantly buy some teriyaki chicken boars head that sounded amazing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

"If we are indeed in the glitchiest of timelines, remember we have collective will. Collective authorship. We are not beholden to the nightmares of those men of old who envisioned the world in extraction and pain."  -  Zoe Todd

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Would this mean that cultured-cell meat would be unhealthy too?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

If I were to guess the biggest problem is modified fats and high temperature processing are the biggest dangers

So no, lab grown meat wouldn't have that problem provided they don't use modified fats or steam canning you should be fine.

The thing is whatever trace contaminants are in the substrate will manifest in concentration in the meat

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I guess 7 hotdogs a day is a little high...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Does ... anything happen on the way to work?

https://youtu.be/MRh91b74zTU

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Well, clearly that ain't true because God wouldn't have made pork pies taste so nice otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

What is the definition of “processed” here? blended meat? high salt %? specific preservatives? artificial casing?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Only $209 per year for access to the content

Or

Similar research from around a year ago:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378589731_Ultra-processed_food_exposure_and_adverse_health_outcomes_umbrella_review_of_epidemiological_meta-analyses/

"Introduction Ultra-processed foods, as defined using the Nova food classification system, encompass a broad range of ready to eat products, including packaged snacks, carbonated soft drinks, instant noodles, and ready- made meals. 1 These products are characterised as industrial formulations primarily composed of chemically modified substances extracted from foods, along with additives to enhance taste, texture, appearance, and durability, with minimal to no inclusion of whole foods. 2 "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_classification

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Also what definition of "safe".

My grandpa eats at least one burger per week and he's turning 90 next year. So obviously "safe" isn't a measure of imminent and near term death?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I agree with you, but using a relative that does something unhealthy that got old to prove a point is not really scientific nor right.

We absolutely know that smoking causes cancer is a really unhealthy habit, yet we see people that smoke reach very high age. However the average smoker lives a shorter life.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

As always, unsafe never means 100% chance to kill. Not wearing s seatbelt while driving is unsafe, but it doesn't mean that you will not be able to survive to 90 is you're lucky.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Too bad, eating it anyways. Besides, the government will kill me first.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

The sun has entered the chatroom

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I feel like the word Safe is being stretched really far here.
Like at this level, getting out of bed isn't Safe.
Walking through a park isn't Safe.

And that level of Unsafeness, is functionally meaningless.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'd like to be sealed in a sous vide bag, that way I can be perpetually protected from anything that tastes good and live forever.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Then you'd have to worry about micro plastics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

not a person in the western world that doesn't already have a ton of microplastics inside

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Hmmm, could we perhaps make a large enough one from a whale stomach?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (4 children)

im okay with not living to 100 at this point, life is short, and id like it to be shorter.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

"I would never commit suicide, but I would like to die naturally soon." - Zoltan Kaszas

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

You don’t want to stick around for the climate collapse, never be able to own anything or retire, and fascist death camps / genocide?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

There are some very useful things you can do with this mindset

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Mariokart tournament?

#BlueShell

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I would never suggest such a horrible thing. CEOs lives matter. Thin green line.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

sorry, im canadian. and i talk a lot of shit about the president so its not like i can cross the border. but i respect the hustle.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

you won’t live longer, it’ll just seem longer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Seems particularly bad for the average USA fast food diet. People in the USA love soda, fried food and processed meat.

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