Leon Isaac Kennedy was born on January 1, 1949 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Lone Wolf McQuade (1983), Body and Soul (1981) and Penitentiary (1979). He has been married to Lolita Armbrister since 1995. He was previously married to Jayne Kennedy.
The reason for this is that bacon is cured meat. There are two reasons not to eat raw meat: taste and food safety. Taste is individual, some people are OK with the taste and eat raw meat as long as they can find a source of meat fresh enough (think sashimi, carpaccio, steak tartare). Food safety is not a problem with bacon. The process of turning pork to bacon includes salt and smoke.
But he said such products are exceedingly rare, and they taste very different from cured bacon. Dry cured or dry rubbed: This one's legit. The makers of dry cured or dry rubbed bacon apply a dry mixture of ingredients to the surface of the bacon, rather than injecting an aqueous solution into the meat. It takes weeks, or even months, for this method to completely cure the meat, whereas conventional injecting takes mere minutes.