Pork
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Is pork good for you? It’s complicated
How does pork fit into a healthy diet? For the answer, more than reading between the lines, you need to read between the slogans.
On one side there is “Eat More Bacon,” a cheer embraced by those rebelling against mainstream health advice who have either bought into an alternative all-you-can-eat approach to saturated fat or who want to snub wellness culture altogether. Emblazoned on T-shirts, throw pillows, bumper stickers and coffee mugs, the phrase has become more than a saying — it is a way of life.
On the other side, there is “The Other White Meat,” one of the most memorable taglines in modern advertising, which, according to the National Pork Board’s website, was designed…
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Holy Pig! Put Down the Pork!
From “I Love Bacon” t-shirts to events like the NY Bacon Fest, it’s clear that pork is on the minds — and plates — of many foodies. But while pork is tantalizing taste buds, there’s more than what meets the palate when it comes to the “other white meat.”
In Defense Of Pork: R.D.s Explain Why They Love The Other White Meat
Skimming through the meat section at your local supermarket, you might find yourself occasionally wondering, is pork healthy?—especially when your eyes glide from your usual chicken breast to a decidedly more seductive cut of pork.
Writing a Book About Pork Made Me Go Vegan
Cambridge University archaeologist Pía Spry-Marqués' new book explores the "love-hate" relationship between humans and pigs. In writing it, she was forced to confront her own eating habits.
America Has a Bacon Problem: Our Pigs Aren’t Fat Enough
The growing clamor for greasy bacon, sausages stuffed with supple lard, and pork chops oozing with deep, scrumptious, oleaginous flab is so strong, in fact, that a problem has developed. America has a shortage of flabby pigs.
Don’t Eat Those Carnitas
Pork tapeworms are tiny nutrient-starved horrors that use scythelike appendages to claw their way into the brains of humans. Once there, they bore cysts through the gray matter in much the same way that a garden-variety worm tunnels through an apple.
Principled Pork
"Sustainable farming" is now open to debate and commercial exploitation. But sustainable pork certainly tastes the way pork should.
U.S. Pork Wallows In Dangerous Antibiotics, Pollution, Welfare Violations
Pork production generates more greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) than any other animal product besides beef, cheese, and lamb. In addition to the GHG output there are serious concerns related to water and air quality.
Does Bacon Cause Cancer?
You can’t always eat what you want.
Is pork good for you? It’s complicated
But although pork clearly has its pluses, most of us would benefit from getting more of our protein from plants (nuts, seeds and beans) and seafood.
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