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Doctor: "Processed meat is a Group 1 carcinogen. I'd cut the bacon."
Patient: "By how much does it raise my risk?"
Doctor: "About 18% per 50 grams a day."
Patient: "18% of what?"
Doctor: "Your bowel cancer risk."
Patient: "Which is what?"
Doctor: "Lifetime, about 6 in 100."
Patient: "So two rashers every day of my life takes 6 in 100 to roughly 7."
Doctor: "That's the absolute figure, yes."
Patient: "One extra case in a hundred. Over a lifetime. For bacon every single day."
Doctor: "It's still a risk."
Patient: "What's the figure for being overweight?"
Doctor: "Higher."
Patient: "And what did you give me the year I was overweight?"
Doctor: "A diet sheet. Cereal, bread, low fat."
Patient: "Which is how I got overweight."
Doctor: "The bacon's the one with the classification."
Patient: "The bacon's the one with the photograph. Two rashers, please, and I'll see you in forty years for the one in a hundred."
Mike
Patient: "By how much does it raise my risk?"
Doctor: "About 18% per 50 grams a day."
Patient: "18% of what?"
Doctor: "Your bowel cancer risk."
Patient: "Which is what?"
Doctor: "Lifetime, about 6 in 100."
Patient: "So two rashers every day of my life takes 6 in 100 to roughly 7."
Doctor: "That's the absolute figure, yes."
Patient: "One extra case in a hundred. Over a lifetime. For bacon every single day."
Doctor: "It's still a risk."
Patient: "What's the figure for being overweight?"
Doctor: "Higher."
Patient: "And what did you give me the year I was overweight?"
Doctor: "A diet sheet. Cereal, bread, low fat."
Patient: "Which is how I got overweight."
Doctor: "The bacon's the one with the classification."
Patient: "The bacon's the one with the photograph. Two rashers, please, and I'll see you in forty years for the one in a hundred."
Mike
Things a ruminant can do that no human, machine or laboratory can.
- Eat a wall and make muscle of it
- Turn a bag of fertiliser into protein
- Recycle its own urine through its spit and use the nitrogen twice
- Carry 100 trillion tenants and eat the surplus
- Learn to digest a poison by borrowing a bug off a goat
- Run a fermentation tank at 39 degrees in a blizzard with no fuel but hay
- Turn fragile seed oils into stable saturated fat on the way through
- Make B12 out of cobalt and dirt
- Build a kilo of complete protein from 600 grams of the stuff a human could eat
- Replace itself once a year, from grass, without an invoice
Every line is 50 million years old.
Every line has been patented by somebody since, in a worse form.
We have the original, standing in a field, and the paperwork says remove it.
Mike
- Eat a wall and make muscle of it
- Turn a bag of fertiliser into protein
- Recycle its own urine through its spit and use the nitrogen twice
- Carry 100 trillion tenants and eat the surplus
- Learn to digest a poison by borrowing a bug off a goat
- Run a fermentation tank at 39 degrees in a blizzard with no fuel but hay
- Turn fragile seed oils into stable saturated fat on the way through
- Make B12 out of cobalt and dirt
- Build a kilo of complete protein from 600 grams of the stuff a human could eat
- Replace itself once a year, from grass, without an invoice
Every line is 50 million years old.
Every line has been patented by somebody since, in a worse form.
We have the original, standing in a field, and the paperwork says remove it.
Mike
Order your burger rare and you get a speech. The waiter's face changes. There may be a form. Some kitchens flatly refuse, on the grounds that you cannot be trusted with your own lunch.
Order the salad and you get a smile and a fork.
Leafy greens cause more food poisoning than any other food in America. The government counted ten years of outbreaks and the lettuce won:
22% of all illnesses, about 2.2 million people a year.
Fruit and vegetables together took 46%.
All the meat and poultry in the country, combined, managed 22%.
In 2018 one outbreak traced to romaine put 96 people in hospital across 36 states, gave 27 of them kidney failure and killed 5.
It is the only thing on the menu that grew in the open, drank whatever was in the irrigation ditch, and arrives at the table without having met a flame.
The little asterisk about undercooked food sits next to the steak.
The steak has been in a fire. The lettuce had a rinse.
Mike
Order the salad and you get a smile and a fork.
Leafy greens cause more food poisoning than any other food in America. The government counted ten years of outbreaks and the lettuce won:
22% of all illnesses, about 2.2 million people a year.
Fruit and vegetables together took 46%.
All the meat and poultry in the country, combined, managed 22%.
In 2018 one outbreak traced to romaine put 96 people in hospital across 36 states, gave 27 of them kidney failure and killed 5.
It is the only thing on the menu that grew in the open, drank whatever was in the irrigation ditch, and arrives at the table without having met a flame.
The little asterisk about undercooked food sits next to the steak.
The steak has been in a fire. The lettuce had a rinse.
Mike
Mike
1914: The ship Karluk is crushed in the Arctic ice on 11 January and sinks off the coast of Siberia, and 25 people climb down onto the floe with whatever they can carry.
Most of them are scientists and sailors. Four of them are a family.
Kuraluk is an Iñupiaq hunter from Alaska. His wife Kiruk sews. Their two daughters, Helen and Mugpi, are eight and three. They have signed on to hunt and make clothes for an expedition that was supposed to be mapping the Canadian Arctic, and have instead been carried across the top of the world by drifting ice.
The castaways walk for weeks to Wrangel Island. Four men who split off on their own vanish on the ice.
Then the captain, Robert Bartlett, walks back out, with one young Iñupiaq hunter named Kataktovik, and heads for Siberia to get help. They cover about 700 miles on foot over sea ice and frozen coast in the dead of winter.
Behind them, on the island, the food is pemmican.
It is supposed to be meat and fat, the explorers' fuel. This batch is made wrong. Too lean, all protein and not enough fat, and it does to the men what lean pemmican always does.
They swell. Their legs balloon. Their kidneys start to fail. Two of them, the geologist George Malloch and his young assistant Bjarne Mamen, die of nephritis in their tent, bloated and starving on a full stomach.
Kuraluk does not eat much pemmican.
He hunts. Seals, whenever the ice opens. Seabirds and their eggs in the spring. Kiruk turns every skin into boots and clothing and keeps the girls dressed for Arctic winter out of what her husband brings back.
The camp that eats what Kuraluk kills is the camp that lives.
There are fights over food and tobacco and ammunition. One man dies of a gunshot, and nobody ever settles whether he did it himself.
On 7 September a small American schooner, the King and Winge, fights through the ice to Wrangel Island. Bartlett had made it. He had got to Siberia, got to Alaska, and sent them a ship.
Eleven of the 25 who left the Karluk are dead.
Kuraluk, Kiruk, Helen and Mugpi walk aboard alive. All four. The three-year-old included.
The men with university degrees died of lean meat. The family with a harpoon lived on fat.
And the lesson came home and was ignored, because a hundred years later the supermarket still sells the lean at the top of the price list and the fat at the bottom.
Mike
Most of them are scientists and sailors. Four of them are a family.
Kuraluk is an Iñupiaq hunter from Alaska. His wife Kiruk sews. Their two daughters, Helen and Mugpi, are eight and three. They have signed on to hunt and make clothes for an expedition that was supposed to be mapping the Canadian Arctic, and have instead been carried across the top of the world by drifting ice.
The castaways walk for weeks to Wrangel Island. Four men who split off on their own vanish on the ice.
Then the captain, Robert Bartlett, walks back out, with one young Iñupiaq hunter named Kataktovik, and heads for Siberia to get help. They cover about 700 miles on foot over sea ice and frozen coast in the dead of winter.
Behind them, on the island, the food is pemmican.
It is supposed to be meat and fat, the explorers' fuel. This batch is made wrong. Too lean, all protein and not enough fat, and it does to the men what lean pemmican always does.
They swell. Their legs balloon. Their kidneys start to fail. Two of them, the geologist George Malloch and his young assistant Bjarne Mamen, die of nephritis in their tent, bloated and starving on a full stomach.
Kuraluk does not eat much pemmican.
He hunts. Seals, whenever the ice opens. Seabirds and their eggs in the spring. Kiruk turns every skin into boots and clothing and keeps the girls dressed for Arctic winter out of what her husband brings back.
The camp that eats what Kuraluk kills is the camp that lives.
There are fights over food and tobacco and ammunition. One man dies of a gunshot, and nobody ever settles whether he did it himself.
On 7 September a small American schooner, the King and Winge, fights through the ice to Wrangel Island. Bartlett had made it. He had got to Siberia, got to Alaska, and sent them a ship.
Eleven of the 25 who left the Karluk are dead.
Kuraluk, Kiruk, Helen and Mugpi walk aboard alive. All four. The three-year-old included.
The men with university degrees died of lean meat. The family with a harpoon lived on fat.
And the lesson came home and was ignored, because a hundred years later the supermarket still sells the lean at the top of the price list and the fat at the bottom.
Mike
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