As if the insanity in this nation wasn’t already at a breaking point, today we have a group of halfwits called The Cancer Project. It sounds like a group dedicated to doing something about cancer. Speaking for all the contributors at SWGA Politics, I’m confident that we are all firmly against cancer. However, what I’m not in favor of is what this group is trying to press.
The group, The Cancer Project is a group of animal rights activists pretending to actually care about the prevention of cancer, and they want to require a warning to be placed on hot dogs stating that it could cause cancer.
Now, I have zero problem with people using their freedom of speech to try and convince me that hot dogs are evil. Of course, I’m just enough of a jerk to go out and get me a chili dog right away and eat it in front of them. That’s me exercising my freedom of speech and they can get over it. But this? This is to much.
Groups like this have this pathetically annoying habit of trying to tell everyone else how they should live their lives, and they do it by making up BS facts. For example, according to the L.A. Times, The Cancer Project claims that “one 50-gram serving of processed meat—about the amount in one hot dog—consumed daily increases the risk of colorectal cancer 21% on average….”
Of course, the L.A. Timesalso points out that evidence to the contrary is pretty abundant:
But a 2004 analysis by Harvard University researchers of pooled data from 14 studies in North America and Europe did not find a similar link between various red and processed meats and cancer. But they did find that higher consumption of poultry and fish may be associated with a lower risk of colorectal cancer.
Oh yeah. I think I’ll listen to Harvards findings based on 14 studies rather than a number apparently made up by a group of half-wits who want to try and scare the hell out of us with this warning. Now, I’m going to admit it, I’m pissed.
Everywhere I turn, someone is trying to get the nanny state to tell us what to do, what to say, what to think, or whatever. I can calmly debate against national health care, hate speech legislation, and gun control, just to name a few. But when you start messing with my hot dogs, you have crossed a dangerous line. In that spirit, here is my letter to The Cancer Project:
To Whom It May Concern:
Thanks to your actions today, I fully intend to have hot dogs for dinner tonight, and for lunch tomorrow, and possibly for dinner again tomorrow night. You’re a bunch of idiots who are just trying to find a new way to ram your ideology down people’s throats.
As I have no interest in actually taking the time to insert a picture into this letter, please imagine my right hand with my middle finger raised in salute of your idiocy.
Please have a hot dog and a smile and shut the hell up!
Sincerely,
Tom Knighton
SWGA Politics
