Act I. Excerpt from an Associated Press news article, March 29.
When it comes to dirty, cancer-causing air, New York City is the worst of the worst: the city with the greatest risk, in the state with the dirtiest air, according to data from the Environmental Protection Agency.
New York is followed by California, Oregon, Washington, D.C., and New Jersey for the dubious distinction of having the worst air, according to the EPA’s data. The best air was in Wyoming, South Dakota and Montana.
[According to George Thurston, a professor of environmental medicine at New York University], living in a heavily polluted city like New York is roughly equal to living with a smoker.
Act II. Excerpt from a Reuters news article yesterday that I read coincidentally after my most recent BBQ outing.
A compound formed when meat is charred at high temperatures—as in barbecue—encourages the growth of prostate cancer in rats, researchers reported on Sunday.
Their study, presented at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, may help explain the link between eating meat and a higher risk of prostate cancer.
It also fits in with other studies suggesting that cooking meat until it chars might cause cancer.
Act III. Caption options.
- Daddy’s prostate is the size of a Valencia orange.
- That savory smell is my hand stuck in the grill.
- No prostate, no problem! Dig in, ladies!
- You can’t spell grill without girll.
- No, honey, only male mammals have a prostate, the gland surrounding the neck of the bladder that secretes a component of ejaculate.
- At least we don’t live in New York City.
Exeunt.