3. Deadly PorkMmmm, bacon. Crispy, fatty, delicious bacon! Who could resist? Not many, but unfortunately, that’s not a good thing. Professor Hans-Heinrich Reckeweg – who is a major party pooper, but at least he’s looking out for us – is responsible for an uber depressing paper titled “The Adverse Influence Of Pork Consumption On Health", in which he concludes that eating pork can cause “inflammations of the appendix and gall bladder, biliary colics, acute intestinal catarrh, gastroenteritis with typhoid and paratyphoid symptoms, as well as acute eczema, carbuncles, sudoriparous abscesses, and others.” Yikes!
What gives? Well, pigs aren’t exactly the healthiest eaters and will snack on anything and everything they find, including excrement, decaying animal flesh, dirt and much more. Their meat absorbs all of these toxins and because they never sweat, the garbage never leaves their body, making them up to 30 times more toxic than, say, cows.
Scariest of all is the claim that “there is no safe temperature at which pork can be cooked to ensure that all these parasites, their cysts, and eggs will be killed… The trichinae worm of the swine is microscopically small, and once ingested can lodge itself in our intestines, muscles, spinal cord or the brain.” AHHHHHH! *tear*