The campaign against smoking is hailed as one of the great public health achievements. Lung cancer rates have plummeted since the 1990s, for instance. But was it, on balance, a colossal mistake?
Because the success of the anti-smoking campaign has clearly gone to the power-hungry heads of a great many public-health troughers. When your entire career depends on finding new things to finger wag the public about, you can bet these lab-coated bullies will keep finding them. Besides, they’re obviously having just too much fun ordering us plebs around.
‘Doctors for the Environment’, ‘Doctors Against Nuclear Weapons’, ‘Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Doctors for Palestine’, ‘International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War’... doctors finger-wagging us about fat, about sugar, about meat… Clearly, doctors have far too much time on their hands. Perhaps if these twits spent less time parading themselves as activists and more time, y’know, being doctors and treating sick people, we mightn’t have such long waiting lists.
We certainly wouldn’t have to put up with nanny-state bullshit like this.
Scientists are calling for a ban on supermarket bacon and ham after the chemicals used in their production were linked to more than 50,000 bowel cancer cases.
The argument is that the nitrites used to cure bacon and ham are linked to increased risk of cancer.
Their analysis, based on figures from Cancer Research UK and the British Journal of Cancer, estimates that around 5,400 bowel cancer cases each year in the UK are caused by eating processed meats. Treatment costs for each patient average £59,000.
Yet, bowel cancer rates have fallen sharply over the last 20 years – both in incidence rates and mortality. But a problem solved is an existential crisis for an activist – so, they’re doubling down (and, just coincidentally, keeping themselves in a nice government job).
Ministers have done ‘virtually nothing’ to reduce Britons’ exposure, according to Professor Chris Elliott OBE, founder of the Institute for Global Food Security and a former government adviser.
You just know that, as soon as an activist starts bellowing ‘da gummint should do sumfink!’, they’ll be screeching ‘BAN IT!’ in about two nanoseconds.
The scientists who worked on the original WHO report have now written to Health Secretary Wes Streeting urging him to ban nitrites in processed meats […]
Although nitrite-free bacon and ham – often sold as ‘naked’ bacon – are available, they make up just five to 10 per cent of the market, with almost all mass-produced bacon sold in supermarkets containing nitrates.
They’re also over twice as expensive. But that’s the sort of brave new world the elites seem to want: ‘Let us eat “naked” bacon while the plebs make do with crickets and mealworms.’
I’m also curious as to whether they’ll call to ban broccoli, cabbages, carrots, pumpkin, beetroot and cauliflower… all foods that naturally contain nitrites and nitrates.
If you’re not already angry enough that they want to ban your bacon and salami, remember when it was just a ‘far-right conspiracy theory’ that they were going to ban gas cooking and heating?
You’ll never guess…
Gas will be banned in Sydney under new planning rules following similar bans in Victoria and the ACT as part of efforts to combat climate change.
The City of Sydney formally endorsed a ban on gas connections at a meeting on Monday, with all new homes and businesses required to be electric only.
Council claims the ban will reduce emissions and improve affordability, but critics say it will increase the risk of blackouts, delay the building sector and make household bills more expensive.
There’s barely electricity enough to go around as it is, as Labor forces its idiotic ‘Net Zero’ agenda on the nation. Every summer, the big cities teeter on the edge of complete blackouts, such as have already hit South Australia, Spain and Texas. Adding to the electricity demand is going to go great guns.
But then, what can you expect from a city that’s elected this as its mayor for the last 20 years?
