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While experts point to car emissions and construction projects as the cause of China's air pollution, a government official in Dazhou in Sichuan has laid the blame on smoked bacon. The city of Dazhou in Sichuan province has been plagued with heavy smog since the new year began, with the PM 2.5 reading frequently exceeding healthy levels.
Rao Bing, deputy head of Dazhou Environment Protection Bureau, said on January 4 that one of the causes of the city's lingering smog is the smoking of bacon. Eating smoked pork and sausages is a long-held tradition in Sichuan, and almost every household makes smoked bacon before the Chinese lunar new year, which falls on Feb. 19 this year.
Local city inspectors or chengguan, have launched raids against bacon-smoking sites and forcibly demolished them.
The claim invited public ridicule and skepticism after Rao's statement found its way online on Wednesday. On Sina Weibo, netizens mocked the official's argument by saying that Dazhou's air might "smell like smoked bacon." "Smoking bacon has a long history, but smog does not," said one comment.
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http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20150116000095&cid=1105
2naSalit
(86,031 posts)It's what the politicians line their pocketses with so the industrials can make smog unhampered.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)Too bad, because it's one of the healthiest foods in the world.
http://authoritynutrition.com/is-bacon-bad-or-good/
madokie
(51,076 posts)Still like a little here and there.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)I had to ditch the bread
Lot of things I used to love that I can't have anymore. Oh well I'll pay that price to get old