| The new pork ads! |
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AshIdiot
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Posted: 26 Dec 2008 05:26 pm |
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| Is anyone else just irritated beyond belief at these new magazine campaigns? It says things like "pork is so lean, it's so healthy, it's this, it's that" which it clearly isn't, but the thing that really got me was "I can eat all I want and not worry about gaining weight" which is just...unbelievable. To me, pork isn't even a food option and these people are going to go there and say that the ridiculously high calories in a serving can't make you fat. I mean wow. I just don't even know what else to say.
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MidgeH
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Posted: 26 Dec 2008 10:14 pm |
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Yeah, that is weird that they would say "I can eat as much as I want and not gain weight" completely false (you can't say that about anything!).
However, pork can be a viable food even on a diet. Roasted pork loin is a good choice and has only a few more calories than chicken breast. What you have to watch out for are huge pork chops, sausage and ham.
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CrimsonAnimus
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Posted: 27 Dec 2008 08:54 am |
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I have to agree with Ash here. Pork is not a good food choice, regardless of how it is prepared.
Here is something interesting I researched online:
Pig's bodies contain many toxins, worms and latent diseases. Although some of these infestations are harbored in other animals, modern veterinarians say that pigs are far more predisposed to these illnesses than other animals. This could be because pigs like to scavenge and will eat any kind of food, including dead insects, worms, rotting carcasses, excreta (including their own), garbage, and other pigs.
Influenza (flu) is one of the most famous illnesses which pigs share with humans. This illness is harbored in the lungs of pigs during the summer months and tends to affect pigs and humans in the cooler months. Sausage contains bits of pigs' lungs, so those who eat pork sausage tend to suffer more during epidemics of influenza. Pig meat contains excessive quantities of histamine and imidazole compounds, which can lead to itching and inflammation; growth hormone, which promotes inflammation and growth; sulphur-containing mesenchymal mucus, which leads to swelling and deposits of mucus in tendons and cartilage, resulting in arthritis, rheumatism, etc.
Sulfur helps cause firm human tendons and ligaments to be replaced by the pig's soft mesenchymal tissues, and degeneration of human cartilage. Eating pork can also lead to gallstones and obesity, probably due to its high cholesterol and saturated fat content. The pig is the main carrier of the taenia solium worm, which is found it its flesh. These tapeworms are found in human intestines with greater frequency in nations where pigs are eaten. This type of tapeworm can pass through the intestines and affect many other organs, and is incurable once it reaches beyond a certain stage. One in six people in the US and Canada has trichinosis from eating trichina worms which are found in pork. Many people have no symptoms to warn them of this, and when they do, they resemble symptoms of many other illnesses. These worms are not noticed during meat inspections, nor are they killed by salting or smoking. Few people cook the meat long enough to kill the trichinae. The rat (another scavenger) also harbors this disease. There are dozens of other worms, germs, diseases and bacteria which are commonly found in pigs, many of which are specific to the pig, or found in greater frequency in pigs.
Pigs are biologically similar to humans, and their meat is said to taste similar to human flesh. Pigs have been used for dissection in biology labs due to the similarity between their organs and human organs. People with insulin-dependent diabetes usually inject themselves with pig insulin.
Do you REALLY want to eat something that so keenly eats its own excrement? 
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VegaObscura
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Posted: 27 Dec 2008 04:34 pm |
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I've always wondered what people taste like. Now I know they taste like pork!
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