A video revealing how bacon is made is leaving people divided with some left still ‘wanting bacon’ and others vowing to ‘go vegan’.

Discovery UK shared a video to YouTube in 2018 from one of its shows revealing just how bacon is made.

It explains that the popular breakfast item used to be cured and smoked in people’s own homes back in the olden days, but now?

Well, prepare yourselves.

Will you ever be able to look at bacon the same again? (Getty Stock Images)

The clip from How It’s Made was originally shown on Discovery UK and was later shared to YouTube, which reveals that bacon is ‘now processed and even pre-cooked in factories’ and it ‘all starts with a load of pork bellies’.

It’s like a scene out of Chicken Run, but with slabs of pork and you can see the pig is very much not alive anymore.

The meat descends into the jaws of the machine, ‘tossed in a big tumbler’ and softened so it’s ‘easier to remove the skin’ – yep, it’s as bad as it sounds.

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A worker then moves the pork belly skin-side down on the conveyer belt, is transported to a blade which slides the skin from the meat – with the skin being used for pork rinds.

Back to the belly, remaining skin is trimmed by workers before a brine solution is used to cure the pork, alongside liquid smoke and other flavorings being added and being ‘repeatedly injected’ with the curing solution.

A metal hanger is pressed into each of the pork belly, they’re hung on a rack and then drenched with smoke adding ‘flavor and color to the surface’.

Still want to bring home the bacon? (YouTube/ Discovery UK)

Once cooked for five hours, it’s blasted in a freezer, cooled for a further few days and then stored, stacked like bricks of a house in-between – a sight to behold for sure – before sliced into the shape of bacon in a way which makes you hang onto your fingers a little bit tighter.

Oh and the fat running off the bacon as it’s cooked in the browning oven isn’t exactly easy to watch either – and it’s not taken long for social media users to weigh in.

One YouTube user said: “This hasn’t reduced my love for bacon in any way, I just think about how much work it takes.”

“Came here expecting to be put off bacon for life, left wanting bacon,” another commented.

A third wrote: “My mouth salivated throughout the entire video… baconnn,” while a fourth added: “Who’s watching this while eating bacon?”

However, others weren’t quite as amused.

The Sun reports a user saying: “I’m never eating bacon again.”

“I’m going vegan,” another resolved.

Others simply joked: “How bacon is made? when a momma pig and a daddy pig love each other very much…”

And another: “Peppa: ‘Mommy pig where is George?'”

Brutal.

A strange new Gen Z food trend has gone viral but people are not impressed with how ‘depressing’ it looks.

It seems like there are new trends evolving from TikTok on a weekly basis at the moment, whether it be a ‘new morning coffee’ or ‘throning’ that’s ruining relationships.

As we approach mid-November and that six-week countdown to Christmas, the younger generation seem to have a new obsession and it involves yogurt.

This is how yogurt is supposed to look (Getty Stock Image)

But not just your regular yogurt… dry yogurt.

I mean, it doesn’t exactly sound appealing, does it?

Dry yogurt trend explained

“This idea draws inspiration from labneh, a Middle Eastern yogurt spread made by straining yogurt to remove excess liquid,” The Takeout states.

To take part in this new trend all you have to do is wrap some yogurt in a paper towel and place something heavy on it to ‘help press out the moisture’, the outlet adds.

The next bit involves a bit of waiting as you need to put the yogurt in the fridge to let it sit for 48 hours.

The result? Well, the yogurt should turn into a clay-like consistency – looking absolutely nothing like the famed dairy product.

TikToker Michelle Brown is one of the many who decided to try the bizarre trend, creating a mini-series that has garnered over 21 million views on the video platform.

Michelle Brown made her opinions known on the yogurt (TikTok/@Missbedhead)

“Woah, that is thick, I don’t know if I like the thickness,” she said after trying it. “It sticks to every part of your mouth.

“The taste hasn’t really changed that much. I think it would be really good with some fruit and granola on it.

“It’s just like eating thick… almost like frosting. Thick, thick frosting.”

While some have enjoyed taking part in the new trend, others have taken to social media to question why we are even bothering messing with yogurt in the first place.

“Who decided that we’re making yogurt dry now. Why are you doing that,” one person penned on Twitter.

“Everyone’s making ‘dry yogurt’ onTikTok and it’s just labneh lol,” a second added, while a third remarked: “I somehow ended up on dry yogurt bowl TikTok and I want out.”

Meanwhile, someone else penned: “I made dry yogurt but it’s soggy and depressing.”

While the viral trend this week may involve yogurt, they’ll undoubtedly be something new in the coming weeks.

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Content warning: This article contains topics some readers may find distressing

A man who decided to have no food and only water for a month has detailed the impact it had on his body.

Of course, it’s certainly not healthy to have no food for such long period of time, so such a challenge is advised against by healthcare professionals.

While factors such as sex, age, starting weight, and water intake all playing a role, experts have discovered someone who is starving themselves could die in 43 to 70 days.

Twitter user @maru.eth decided to drink only water for a period of 42 days, but ultimately called it quits on Thursday (January 23) after 30 days.

Taking to Twitter on December 26, at the start of the challenge, he said: “Updating this thread with my 1000-hour (42 days) water fast progress that I started after Christmas dinner. I’ll only drink water and supplement electrolytes (sodium, magnesium, potassium).”

He had no food and just water (Twitter/@wasserpest)

The man explained how his weight on December 24 was 97.85kg (216lbs), while he was six-foot-four tall.

On Twitter for the past month, he has been posting regular updates about his progress, beginning by explaining how the first 72 hours were the ‘toughest’.

“The first 72h are the toughest because your body is constantly signaling you to eat. it gets way easier after that initial period,” he wrote.

After his first week, the man had dropped 92kg, which coincided with the New Year’s celebrations.

“Spending NYE without any yummy snacks or drinks was tough, but I made it, I’m alive. slept pretty well and feeling good overall, but I can’t shake off the feeling that this fast feels considerably different than my other ones… somethings up and I’m not exactly sure what,” he explained.

Throughout his test, @maru.eth explained how sleep was never really a problem, but the mornings were usually ‘rough’.

The man has detailed his body transformation (notmaru/Instagram)

“I lose approximately 300g each day if I keep my sodium intake constant. I still lost actual fat but you don’t see that on the scale because of increased water retention,” he explained in a follow-up post.

One question many will be asking is how going for a number two is impacted by having zero food for such a long time.

The man explained how his stool was ‘very long and that there’s residue coming out even after 13 days of not eating anything’.

On January 17, he said how he had gone for his first poo in a whopping 12 days.

And after a gruesome month, he ended the fast this week with a weight of 82.95kg, a drop of 15kg.

“I’m finally done. 30 days without food, just water,” he said. “I didn’t quite reach the 1000 hour mark as I initially planned but I’m still proud I kept at it for so long. I did this to challenge myself and for no other reason! never fasting for so long ever again.”

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If you were considering dropping meat from your diet for good in the near future, then this video might tip you towards finally taking the plunge into vegetarianism.

As of last year, it was said that around six percent of the US population described themselves as vegetarian, with four percent said they were pescatarian or vegan, Statista reported.

Vegetarianism is thought to have gone up a percentage from 2023 to 2024, and it’s unlikely that that figure will be dropping anytime soon.

Six percent of Americans say they’re vegetarian (Getty Stock)

Some people opt to ditch meat products for environmental purposes, while others may do so for ethical reasons.

There’s also the idea that a vegetarian diet is healthier than an eating meat, but you have to ‘tread carefully’, Stanford Medicine warned back in 2019.

For whatever reason you’re possibly considering going veggie, this ‘revolting’ video may help you in your decision.

In a clip that was shared online in 2023, a freshly cut piece of meat that had salt added to it is seen convulsing.

The controversial video has been shared on several different social media platforms, sparking people to share their thoughts.

“Omg that’s revolting,” one person said.

“Coulda went the rest of my life w.o seeing this [sic],” said someone else.

Others spoke of wanting to go veggie after seeing the clip.

One wrote on Instagram: “Am becoming a vegetarian.”

“Well, this picture could make me give up eating meat,” a different person penned elsewhere.

But why did the meat move in such a gross way?

Many people said they could have gone without seeing the video (Twitter/@weirdterrifying)

Apparently ‘the sodium in the salt triggers still-functioning neurons in the meat, causing a cascade of muscular contractions’, Instagram page @conceptsjpg explained.

Dr Myro Figura expanded on this in a TikTok video, saying: “The central nervous system might be gone, but the peripheral nerve endings are still there. It’s the sodium that activates them and causes the muscle to spasm.

“This only happens with really fresh meat, and with no oxygen or blood supply it does not last long.”

Meanwhile, the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) has a whole page explaining ‘post-slaughter factors affecting red meat quality’.

The AHDB explains: “Following slaughter, the supply of blood to the muscles ceases, and any remaining energy is used up. This is commonly seen as muscles twitching/tensing. Once this energy is depleted, muscle proteins begin to bind during a process referred to as rigor mortis.

“The pH of living tissue is around 7. When the animal dies, the energy within the muscle is used up and causes the pH to fall to around 5.4– 5.7 (the ultimate pH).”