Aspen appreciates climate change, cancer and heart disease

So I pull into Aspen today to park, I see this sign.

I thought it was a joke. I thought there’s no way, given that the World Health Organization says processed meats such as bacon cause cancer and the damage that animal AG is doing to our planet, that Aspen, a company that depends on the environment and customers, would be promoting bacon. No way. Gotta be a joke.

So I go inside, ask some people. This is a thing. Not just a thing, a serious thing. Next Sunday, “they’ll be bacon everywhere” said one guy.

Bacon Appreciation Day
https://www.aspensnowmass.com/while-you-are-here/events/bacon-appreciation-day

Someone should tell Aspen about Bacon. Then ask them why, a company that depends on the environment and customers, would do such a thing.

Send them these links

Animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, more than the combined exhaust from all transportation.

Fao.org. Spotlight: Livestock impacts on the environment.

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION REPORT HAS CLASSIFIED BACON & SAUSAGE AS CARCINOGENIC TO HUMANS

Aubrey, Allison. “Bad day for bacon: Processed Meats Cause Cancer WHO Says”. npr: the salt. Oct. 2015

“Carcinogenicity of consumption of red and processed meat”. The Lancet Oncology. Vol. 16. 2015

“IARC Monographs evaluate consumption of red meat and processed meat”. World Health Organization

International Agency for Research on Cancer. PRESS RELEASE N.240. Oct. 2015

 ONE SERVING OF PROCESSED MEAT PER DAY INCREASED RISK OF DEVELOPING DIABETES BY 51%

Pan, An, et al “Reat meat Consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes: 3 cohorts of US adults and an updated meta-analysis”. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. August 2011

Micha, Renata, et al “Unprocessed Red and Processed Meats and Risk of Coronary Artery Disease and Type 2 Diabetes- An Updated Review of the Evidence”. 

Current artherosclerosis reports. 2012 Dec;14(6): 515-524