Potato Chips Cause Cancer


From the Everything Causes Cancer Department, activists are targeting potato chips. The warning label nazis want consumers to be told that each bag of chips contains harmful cancer-causing chemicals.

Public health attorneys in California have potato chip makers in their sights for not listing a cancer-causing chemical present in many brands.

That chemical is acrylamide. It is an industrial chemical used in plastics, pesticides and sewage treatment that also can occur when starchy foods, such as chips, are processed at high temperatures. The World Health Organization has said acrylamide may be responsible for up to one-third of all cancers caused by diet, as demonstrated by laboratory animal studies. Acrylamide is already on California's list of chemicals known to cause cancer, but some chipmakers haven't listed it on their product packaging as required by Proposition 65 statute.

There you have it: Eat potato chips and die! It's one Goddamned unique ad campaign that's for sure.


Category:  Everything Causes Cancer, Category:  Pleasure Police
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How do I apply for the copyright and trademark on, "I'd die for a _____!"?

Note that french fries, fried chicken, and most any kind of fried veggies will also have acrylamide. If it's made when starch is processed at high temperatures, about the only foods that don't contain it are boiled, or meat with no breading. And IIRC, broiling or frying meats produce other carcinogens. So the only thing that's really safe are boiled or raw foods. No doubt there's something wrong with them too, that just hasn't been discovered yet. So just remember, if you only eat boiled food, your life might not actually be longer, but it will certainly seem that way!

Posted by: markm at June 20, 2005 12:30 PM

Heh. Now you know why I only drink pure distilled water (or rain water) and grain alcohol.

Posted by: Ravenwood at June 20, 2005 1:08 PM

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