This will push SSS over the edge. First, the War on Drugs is a failure. Second, nuclear energy is DOA. Third, his beloved CIA is being dragged through the mud for just a few minor indiscretions. And now bacon is the cause of all the pollution in China. Next they’ll be reporting that marijuana helps cancer patients. At least the smell of their pollution makes your mouth water.
Chinese city says pollution all due to … bacon
By Laura He
Published: Jan 21, 2015 12:36 a.m. ET
Shutterstock/Joe Gough
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Homemade smoked bacon is a long-enjoyed delicacy in China’s famous Sichuan cuisine. But the meaty dish is now under fire as “the criminal culprit” responsible for the heavy air pollution, according to officials in Sichuan.
Dazhou, a municipality located in the northeastern corner of Sichuan province, has suffered from especially “severe air pollution” since earlier this month, according to the provincial environmental monitoring center.
But according to officials from Dazhou’s own environmental protection bureau, the main cause is the smoking of bacon by local residents, according to a report Tuesday by the state-run China News Agency.
And what’s worse is that Dazhou might not be alone. Over in the region’s largest city, the government-owned Chongqing Evening News reported that the centuries-old winter tradition of smoking pork was behind a recent climb in PM 2.5, a pollutant consisting of tiny particles that can affect lung function and cause other problems.
However, some locals don’t agree.
Zheng Jian, head of Chongqing-based social-service agency Bayu NPO Development Center, was quoted in the second report as saying that while bacon-smoking can affect the air, it’s very unlikely there would be any “substantial impact.”
Zheng said that in any case, smoking bacon would have negligible effects on PM 2.5 levels.
Oh, yeah, local folks smoking off a few pork bellies is the cause of the terrible air pollution in China, laugh laugh snort snort.
How about the complete absence of any environmental controls whatsoever on their cars, power plants, manufacturing and agriculture?
How about the graft and corruption of officials in their so-called Environmental Quality Boards that look the other way of the big polluters?
BACON IS LIFE!. No wonder the commie rat bastards and muslim Death Culters hate it.
Didn’t the Chinese just buy the largest pig farm in America?It must be their own fault.
WTF? Did someone here on TBP announce a “Let’s shit all over SSS week,” and I missed it?
I know you have thick skin and a sense of humor. 🙂
I still like ya SSS, you’re still my favorite spook.