Don't Bring Home the Bacon? Abdul El-Sayed Compared Beloved Breakfast Meat to Plutonium: 'That's the Stuff We Make Nuclear Weapons Out Of'

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed laced into one of America's most beloved foods—bacon—comparing the breakfast food to "plutonium" and arguing that both the breakfast meat and the "stuff we make nuclear weapons out of" cause cancer and put public health at risk, according to a transcript of one of his since-deleted YouTube videos.