Don't believe the hype, vegetarian.

You missed out on all that wonderful wonderful bacon for what?

real shaman: You missed out on all that wonderful wonderful bacon for what?

To add years to her life.

Suck that vegetarians.

Whatever. I'm sure she was hereditarily predisposed. Veganism and vegetarianism doesn't stop cancer. Nothing does.

You know who else was a vegetarian?

Erodeo: op cancer. Nothing does.

Hopefully the followup tests show up clean. Still, what a dumb thing to say.

Newsflash: Life can give you cancer.

I was really hoping it'd be Moby. And terminal.

I'm a Mammo-Ovarian Vagetarian so I'm really getting a kick out of these reply's.

So concerned about her health and yet having industrial ink injected into her skin. Crazy.

Ah. Misinformation, lies and half-truths about natural healing.

/I love the smell of bullshiat in the morning.

But but but being vegan is supposed to cure cancer and prevent hemorrhoids and increase my IQ and get Obama elected and bring peace to Israel!

OHNOZTHEYLIEDTOME, now I have no reason to keep eating vegan!!11!

lulz @ vegans, I can't believe 1~100% of you believe this crap lolol

FarkinHostile: You know who else was a vegetarian?

Ed Begley Jr.?

CarnySaur

You know who else was a vegetarian?

Ed Begley Jr.?


Really? But he seems so manly. Go figure.

Wrong_Intentions: I was really hoping it'd be Moby. And terminal.

I lol'd. I like his music but he's an insufferable little bastard once you get him talking.

Lundah: Newsflash: Life can give you cancer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGZeFFInn94

/rockin the crack rock steady beat.
//40 oz, get off it.

Hey hey I got a treatment. It involves syncing your vibrations to the earth through quantum toxin cleansing.

That'll be 150,000 bucks, thanks.

Oh, and 20 more for the crystal.

Lt_Aurum: But but but being vegan is supposed to cure cancer and prevent hemorrhoids and increase my IQ and get Obama elected and bring peace to Israel!

OHNOZTHEYLIEDTOME, now I have no reason to keep eating vegan!!11!

lulz @ vegans, I can't believe 1~100% of you believe this crap lolol

Ha ha! People are dying from cancer. One of them was vegan, so he's a dumbass.

I give your troll 6/10

Makh:

I give your troll 6/10
I give your troll perception abilities a -10, I was clearly trolling at the anti-vegan trolls.

/drop it like it's hot

Lt_Aurum: Makh:

I give your troll 6/10
I give your troll perception abilities a -10, I was clearly trolling at the anti-vegan trolls.

I know, I caught your troll as such, and I still think, meh. It lacks a certain finesse. I want to see you try that again.

PresentCompanyExcluded: Ah. Misinformation, lies and half-truths about natural healing.

People really, really, really want to believe that if they just make all the right and perfect decisions, they will live forever.

Sadly, we all die. And some people are just losers in the big genetic lottery.

Generally if someone is talking about generic "toxins" and "cleanses" though, they're full of shiat. But often they really really really want to believe their own woo, they're not always necessarily just out to rip you off.

all you people poo-pooing veggie eating can go suck a carrot.

You say that it didn't help her.... Well, tell me exactly how western medicine would've helped prevent it, or anything else.

i don't know how you discount one method, when you aren't able to offer up a better method.

western medicine is no less a sham than mystical rocks, so own up.

I first thought John K. Samson when I saw "vegan." And then I saw Winnipeg and I got really freaked out. Not that this isn't unfortunate, but at least I'd known about it already.

How about some background information?

Bif was not always into a healthy lifestyle. Back in her Chrome Dog days, she smoked, drank, and basically did a lot of crap that seems to have caught up with her (unless this was due to genetic pre-disposition. My guess is that it's a little from column A, a little from column B.)

After being a health-nut person for so long, avoiding things that are considered to cause cause cancer (in short, chemicals in foodstuffs) ... is it really hard to imagine being shocked from the diagnosis?

Bif is an awesome, strong lady. Her health-nut attitude is likely what's helped her get through the treatment as well as she has.

weiner dog: Bif is an awesome, strong lady. Her health-nut attitude is likely what's helped her get through the treatment as well as she has.

lol, cancer is funny. one less sammich maker.

oh wait, you are being serious and you really believe the vegan hype. sorry, cancer is not funny.

"When you get diagnosed with cancer and you're a raw food vegan -- for 10 years You think they're lying to you, or they got your chart mixed up."

or you are just a moron ?

I like her music, she seems cool. Cancer sucks.

But I'm hearing the same notes as in that other smash hit by Nancy Kerrigan, when she was rocking back & forth, holding her knee...

♪ WHY ME? ♫

To which my automatic reaction is, why not you? What makes you so special?

/Life. Parts of it suck. Get a helmet.

Pesticides...I like mine concentrated in the animals I eat versus consuming it fresh off the veg

Makh:

I know, I caught your troll as such, and I still think, meh. It lacks a certain finesse. I want to see you try that again.

Fair enough, I really don't read the Politics tab threads as well as I should. My troll-fu is growing tho.

"I'm sorry, I don't know what that is."

T.rex: all you people poo-pooing veggie eating can go suck a carrot.

You say that it didn't help her.... Well, tell me exactly how western medicine would've helped prevent it, or anything else.

i don't know how you discount one method, when you aren't able to offer up a better method.

western medicine is no less a sham than mystical rocks, so own up.

Soooo...where do you go when you get sick?

serialkittenkiller: T.rex: all you people poo-pooing veggie eating can go suck a carrot.

You say that it didn't help her.... Well, tell me exactly how western medicine would've helped prevent it, or anything else.

i don't know how you discount one method, when you aren't able to offer up a better method.

western medicine is no less a sham than mystical rocks, so own up.

Soooo...where do you go when you get sick?

Tor Eckman.

A couple of months ago, they had one of those alternate lifestyle fairs near here. I dropped by to take a look, and there was the usual assortment of nuts handing out pamphlets and selling handmade crap.

A couple of people were setting up the vegan lifestyle table. They had a milk crate (and I'm sure they didn't notice the irony) full of literature - sitting on a cart. The two of them (male and female) were trying to lift it and set it on the table, but couldn't. So I walked over, grabbed the crate with one hand, and set it on the table for them. Then they tried to explain how healthy they were now that they were vegans...

/I'm not that strong, they were just that weak
//vegan is what you eat when the healthy people take all of the food

serialkittenkiller: Soooo...where do you go when you get sick?

Hell, where you do think EASTERN people go when they get sick nowadays?

Allopathic medicine for the win...

Yeah, you can be healthy as a vegan, or vegetarian. And being healthy is a good thing. But the thing is, merely being healthy is no guarantee that you won't get cancer. Some people just get cancer. Some kids are BORN with cancer.

Sometimes I think the "smoking and pesticides cause cancer" advertising worked too well, to the point that people think if you don't do anything wrong, you'll never get cancer.

But if you do get cancer, you're going to want some surgery and scientific medical treatment backed by actual blind evidence. Will it always work? No. But it's a far better chance than the rest of the woo people always go for because they really, really want to believe.

It's human to really really want to believe. But at some point you gotta let your brain kick in.

But here's hoping she makes a full recovery.

came for the hot pictures of bif naked circa 1998...

leaving disappointed...

I hope she recovers, but she is/was painfully naive about her lifestyle. Still, not dumb enough to deserve cancer or anything like that. I don't think too many people actually "deserve cancer".

weiner dog: How about some background information?

Bif was not always into a healthy lifestyle. Back in her Chrome Dog days, she smoked, drank, and basically did a lot of crap that seems to have caught up with her (unless this was due to genetic pre-disposition. My guess is that it's a little from column A, a little from column B.)

After being a health-nut person for so long, avoiding things that are considered to cause cause cancer (in short, chemicals in foodstuffs) ... is it really hard to imagine being shocked from the diagnosis?

Bif is an awesome, strong lady. Her health-nut attitude is likely what's helped her get through the treatment as well as she has.

Yeah unlikely, you need strength to survive a cancer scare and that means lots of vitamins and proteins which you will not get enough of from a vegetarian diet.

madmann: I like her music, she seems cool. Cancer sucks.

But I'm hearing the same notes as in that other smash hit by Nancy Kerrigan, when she was rocking back & forth, holding her knee...

♪ WHY ME? ♫

To which my automatic reaction is, why not you? What makes you so special?

/Life. Parts of it suck. Get a helmet.

I know this is Fark, the snark levels are always high, and nothing is sacred... but hell, I think "Why me?" is a pretty farking common human response to personal tragedy regardless of how smart or strong a person is.

Courtney Cox-Zucker: madmann: I like her music, she seems cool. Cancer sucks.

But I'm hearing the same notes as in that other smash hit by Nancy Kerrigan, when she was rocking back & forth, holding her knee...

♪ WHY ME? ♫

To which my automatic reaction is, why not you? What makes you so special?

/Life. Parts of it suck. Get a helmet.

I know this is Fark, the snark levels are always high, and nothing is sacred... but hell, I think "Why me?" is a pretty farking common human response to personal tragedy regardless of how smart or strong a person is.

Pretty much. Especially when one lives a very healthy lifestyle.

Courtney Cox-Zucker: madmann: I like her music, she seems cool. Cancer sucks.

But I'm hearing the same notes as in that other smash hit by Nancy Kerrigan, when she was rocking back & forth, holding her knee...

♪ WHY ME? ♫

To which my automatic reaction is, why not you? What makes you so special?

/Life. Parts of it suck. Get a helmet.

I know this is Fark, the snark levels are always high, and nothing is sacred... but hell, I think "Why me?" is a pretty farking common human response to personal tragedy regardless of how smart or strong a person is.

Ok. Seems pretty juvenile & narcissistic to me, but we obviously have different views. I've had some pretty farked up stuff happen to me. So has everyone I ever met.

I went deaf in one ear. Didn't say anything like "Why me?". Why not? Probably the same reason I didn't ask "Why not me?" when my nephew did a deep dive in a shallow pool and ended up in a wheelchair.

Bad shiat happens. Law of averages say you'll get your share. To single yourself out as if you should be immune strikes me the same as if I were to see an adult whining "It's not FAIR!!!" as if the universe operated on some perfect code of justice.

[shrug]

nicoffeine: Hey hey I got a treatment. It involves syncing your vibrations to the earth through quantum toxin cleansing.

That'll be 150,000 bucks, thanks.

Oh, and 20 more for the crystal.

Cool! Were you the one who treated Andy Kauffman?

Link (new window)

/there ya go

Cancer is a mutation. It can happen to any person at any time, period.

After losing her hair, she now has grown back a short pixie cut that suits her pretty face dominated by large, inquisitive blue eyes.

Large, inquisitive blue eyes? She more looks hungover/strung out in that picture.

Wrong_Intentions: I was really hoping it'd be Moby. And terminal.

I hope your mom gets cancer.

/oh wait, musicians aren't people so it's cool to wish death on them, right?

Rock Star ? Who ?

If you don't think that a person is healthier by not eating fat-laden meat, then you are an idiot.

I eat meat because I like the taste, but I know that i would be healthier if I did not eat it.

Now get this: In nature, animals that are carnivores or omnivores have the shortest digestive tracts. Animals that are vegetarians have the longest digestive tracts.

Are humans digestive tracts short? or long?

Yep. Kick 'em when they're down.

When people are diagnosed with a serious disease like cancer, there is usually an element of shock and disbelief. It's only reasonable that if you're taking good care of yourself and doing everything you think will help prevent disease, like your doctor and the media tell you to do, that it would only heighten that element of disbelief.

The dumbass tag should be for the people who don't get that.

I don't know her, but I wish her well.