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German Researchers Find Fine Particle Emissions from Barbecues May Endanger Public Health
By P Gosselin
Fine particle pollution from barbecues may be dangerous to the public, German researchers warn
Most among us are aware there’s an ongoing campaign to herd humans away from meat and towards a diet that is more fit for cows. This , activists claim, would be much gentler on our weather and climate systems. Meat-eating is destroying the planet and it’s time people stop it.
Now German MDR public broadcasting here presents another reason why we should avoid meat – especially grilled meat: the summer barbecues are causing our air to be polluted with fine particles that are dangerous to human health!
According to researchers in Leipzig, measurements were taken by instruments carried around in backpacks in the cities of Leipzig and Dresden (Germany). At times, the pollution levels from barbecues were even worse than the pollution from busy street traffic, the researchers found.
According to the study leader, Jens Voigtländer,
“First we determined that on days on and around national holidays, during evenings often a rise in concentration could be observed, and that coming from areas near recreational places; that is small gardens and parks. The effects that we see are local and short-term. That means we see them on one day and a day later we don’t. It’s a very short-term impact. […]
Everyone should ask themselves if it’s good for the health to barbecue continuously or too often.”
Now we need to worry about the risks of summer barbecues that many of us very much enjoy.
The MDR doesn’t provide any background as to why such a study was conducted in the first place.
Cooking food indoors, and most indoor activities in general, also produce a great amount of fine particle pollution, likely in even greater concentrations. It’s rather a mystery why people are running around with super-sensitive instruments, looking for every speck of fine particle and then worrying that it could be a risk to our health.
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Timing is everything, here at least…..
Why: I’ve just been through another docu-series and was informed about the Vagus Nerve and how it connects most things together, esp our Livers and Brains
The Vagus nerve joins other things together and the ‘educator’ cracked a joke about how A Boy might tell A Girl that he loved her, NOT with ‘all his heart‘ but with ‘all his liver‘ – such is our nervous plumbing.
Odd that innit, as presenting the (female) apple of your eye with a still warm fresh raw liver was THE most romantic thing any boy could do.
(If she loved you, if she was maybe gonna say ‘yes’, she shared it with you. What would Modern Feminist Type Girls do? ha ha ha ha ha) ##
What made the docu-series so much fun was that the educator was extolling the joys of a Plant Based Diet at the time.
They tie themselves in such impossible knots – yet *never* realise. Just like climate science – we really are up to our necks in Junk Shyte Science
Eating raw liver (and drinking blood, and bone marrow, and brain) is what made us what we are, that is what we are supposed to eat and, is what ‘made babies’
It is what made strong, healthy and intelligent babies.
(do I hear pennies dropping?)
## It obviously was not your own actual liver though, maybe = Reindeer, Bambi, pigs, hogs & boar etc etc
PS How many pennies are in $6 Trillion
Because that’s how many are dropping down the pan annually in the US, because it citizens are eating All The Wrong Food
yeh but but the pharmas and the medico system are loving it
eating raw meat n offals a great way to get serious parasite problems and Kuru among other risks
“There is no need for us to cook food, unless we are eating a lot of meat/flesh which we shouldn’t be doing anyway. To tenderise, no other reason.”
Ummmm . . .
1) Cooking food (at sufficiently hot temperatures) destroys viruses, bacteria, and parasites that could be present in that food. Most humans don’t like getting sick.
2) Cooking certain foods, in particular animal meats, greatly improves their flavor/taste. Most humans prefer cooked meats to raw meats.
3) Cooking animal meats greatly improves their useful storage life at common refrigerator temperatures. Most humans prefer “left overs” from the fridge that haven’t spoiled within 3-5 days.
4) The meat/flesh from certain fish, such as salmon, is stated to be healthy for humans to eat:
“Fish is a low-fat high quality protein. Fish is filled with omega-3 fatty acids and vitamins such as D and B2 (riboflavin). Fish is rich in calcium and phosphorus and a great source of minerals, such as iron, zinc, iodine, magnesium, and potassium. The American Heart Association recommends eating fish at least two times per week as part of a healthy diet. Fish is packed with protein, vitamins, and nutrients that can lower blood pressure and help reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke.” — https://doh.wa.gov/community-and-environment/food/fish/health-benefits
Ummmm…eating raw meat maybe lead to the life expectancy being so low when cooking was not the “fad”. Maybe cooking it prevented many many many bad things from occurring. Just maybe
Ever since the EPA did their unauthorized, poorly designed, improperly controlled, statistically dastardly, and never would have passed an IRB process study on pm 2.5 effects on health, ecoloons have been out trying to indict every part of life for “killing us all!”.
Would they rather that we all ate raw food and died young? Of course they do as that would “decrease the surplus population” to quote a misanthrope from literature. Everything these people are demanding would lead to a collapse of human populations, but they all think they would be spared because they are the elect few who shall guide us to nirvana. Little do they know, the new ruling class would eliminate them first as rulers can’t leave successful revolutionaries around to undermine them.
What are the fine particle emissions from a land war in Europe with scorched earth policy from Russia?
I say we ban leftist politicians! And hunt and kill them too!!!!
My parents were both born in 1916 and 1918. They both lived to a ripe old age (88 and 93) in spite of following the health advice of the 1930s and 40s, such as “smoking is good for your nerves”. (They quit smoking in mid-50’s). They also survived growing up in a part of the country with some heavy industry and a ton of transportation infrastructure – meaning steam locomotives pouring out poorly combusted coal, many manufacturing plants having their own coal fired power plants, etc. And no pollution controls on automobiles or trucks.
And I’m supposed to believe barbecuing will affect my health?
BTW, their generation fought and won WWII and ushered in the jet, space and computer ages, so pollution didn’t affect their intellect either.
Ah, yes, the EPA argument. The smaller the particle the more dangerous, so that microparticles cause 100 times as many deaths as actually happen annually in the US.
(Or at least that is the theory they used as an excuse for grabbing more bureaucratic power.)
“The smaller the particle the more dangerous . . .”
Just one of the reasons that I hate quarks and seriously maintain that they should be eradicated from the universe.
😉
To reduce atmospheric particulates in cities:
1 Search out and exploit sources of methane, preferably in your own country.
2.Ban the use of liquid fuels in internal combustion engines.
3 Only permit methane burning ICEs
4 Job done.
If only we knew where to find more natural gas.
JF
Every time the Green Loonies come up with some new initiative, one thinks that this must be the limit of stupidity. However within a week the Loonies will out do themselves and come up with a new Crazed Winner. This week it is your Barbecue.
If this is the best these people can do with their education we need to fire them, replace them with researchers who are interested in serious science and and hire these slackers to pull weeds and sweep sidewalks.
Birth is the #1 cause of health issues.
It always leads to death
More and more people are calling out against (ultra)fine particles. I wonder how many among those who are making a fuss are smokers. I hope they realize that smoking four cigarettes gives you the same fine dust in your lungs as being in Beijing for one day.
If they really care about not getting sick from fine dust, they should give up smoking.
https://www.inverse.com/article/32209-air-pollution-smog-beijing-china-cigarettes-unhealthy
“then worrying that it could be a risk to our health.”
No, planning ways to leverage their “findings” into more control over you and me.
They should spend more time on measuring PM10 & 2.5 near the Autobahns. Easy to get measurement there.
Leave my meat alone!
I like to eat mollusks and crustaceans. Shrimp are excellent when grilled! Gulf of Mexico shrimp taste better than Atlantic or Pacific but all are good. Percebes, goose barnacles, are also great.
Throw in waffle words, e.g., “may endanger” and this appears to be another computer generated fake research paper.
But look! . . . author P. Gosselin did postpone—until the second sentence in the article’s body text, that is—mentioning “climate systems”.
The “PM2.5 is dangerous concept” is run-away just-plain-bad-science” and even worse medicine.
Breathing continuously smokey air from a cooking fire inside a shack or hut for years is bad for one’s lungs. That is the extent of the correct science on PM2.5. This may extend to certain occupational hazards, like fire-fighters.
All else is utter nonsense.
Managed to grill some Shish Kabobs between rain showers here in central Indiana, and boy were they good!
“The MDR doesn’t provide any background as to why such a study was conducted in the first place.”
The gas-grill barbecue manufacturers want some California-style restrictions on competitors.