Bacon Cancer Link: Twitter Reacts To WHO Announcement, See The Best Tweets From #FreeBacon, #JeSuisBacon, #Bacongeddon

Foodies, companies, butchers, media organizations and plenty of others have turned to Twitter to vent, rage and vow never to give up bacon in the wake of a World Health Organization (WHO) report issued Monday saying processed meats including bacon, ham and sausages cause cancer. Even eating less than two slices of bacon per day could raise a person's chance of getting colorectal cancer by 18 percent, the organization said. But the collective response on social media was defiantly clear: We don't care. We will keep eating bacon anyway.
Hashtags including #FreeBacon, #Bacongeddon and #JeSuisBacon were trending Tuesday, for the second day in a row as people posted pictures of bacon and defended their sworn love of the meat. The media company Thomson Reuters conducted an analysis of these tweets and found the ratio of negative tweets to positive tweets regarding cancer and bacon to be 7-to-1 Monday and 6.5-to-1 Tuesday.
Here's a sampling of the firestorm of tweets, memes and photos in the wake of the WHO report. Many vowed to never give up bacon:
There's no way they can take bacon away from me. #JeSuisBacon
— Luca Faidutti (@LucaFaidutti) October 27, 2015
They can't take that away from me.
#JeSuisBacon pic.twitter.com/oBL2918o5F
— Alexei Kassymov (@Akassymov) October 27, 2015
Some tweeted "Je Suis Panceta," which is a type of cured pork that is more or less a fancier cousin of bacon.
We're all going to hell. #FreeBacon https://t.co/zMPQR0m2jH pic.twitter.com/qOU9YEaD4Q
— Laura Martínez ® (@miblogestublog) October 26, 2015
Others compared their devotion to bacon to the quests of heroes in epic films.
You can take our lives but you can't take our bacon!!!!! #FreeBacon pic.twitter.com/f0AMIgvcoX
— Touch2000 (@ThaboKunene) October 26, 2015
Individuals and pork companies alike simply posted pictures of bacon -- lots of it -- perhaps in defiance of the report. If bacon is bad for health, "Bring it on!" they seemed to be saying.
"I want to kill myself" starter pack: #OMS #FreeBacon pic.twitter.com/t6zk8AzQDy
— Ángel J. (@AngelBroMa) October 26, 2015
Us right now with all these #bacon tweets. pic.twitter.com/pLzVGo2uX7
— O2 Academy Brixton (@O2academybrix) October 26, 2015
If #bacon is wrong, we don't want to be right! https://t.co/Dx9s4tUOKi pic.twitter.com/CqYdEgQTHf
— HeritageCheshirePork (@CheshirePork) October 28, 2015
"I'm not in danger. I am the danger" #FreeBacon pic.twitter.com/9Vi3iazU5D
— Marcus Bruno (@OMarcusBruno) October 26, 2015
Others simply voiced their sadness at the news or proclaimed their love for this crispy, salty, flavorful meat:
#Bacon, processed meat linked to cancer, red meat risky too. It's okay to cry, #Charleston. https://t.co/XdxJkccOBZ pic.twitter.com/2pTUchPu7v
— The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) October 26, 2015
After a bashing in the news, I dedicate my #NATIONALILOVEYOUDAY to #bacon.We all love you*
*vegetarians not so much pic.twitter.com/n6lyR3xbh9
— Dom Graham (@GuitaristDom) October 28, 2015
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