PARIS (AP) — The World Health Organization’s cancer agency says that processed meats such as ham and sausage can lead to colon and other cancers, and red meat is probably cancer-causing as well.
Researchers from the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, released an evaluation of more than 800 studies from several continents about meat and cancer.
Based on that evaluation, they classified processed meat as “carcinogenic to humans” — in the same category as cigarettes — and red meat as “probably carcinogenic to humans.”
Meat industry groups protest the classification, arguing that cancer is not caused by specific foods but by several factors.
Doctors and many government agencies have long warned that a diet loaded with red meat is linked to cancers, including of the colon and pancreas.
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Sorry, WHO. I don’t believe it. This is just another poorly research finding that will be iver turned in 5 years!
Man, that picture makes me hungry.
That my friends is some serious comfort food. I gotta leave now and get me some breakfast
“Iver” turning being one of the more patriotic acts of out defund-crazed Congress. If Louis Gohmert’s not up on his haunches in the Capitol chamber aspiring over what this means for his asparagus, I just don’t know what all.
Millions of years of evolution made us omnivores. Who am I to resist that?
Interesting that in the two articles I’ve read there’s no mention of why. For example, why are hot dogs worse than a steak? We know the answer when we read the list of ingredients on the typical hot dog, so why won’t they talk about that? And as for cigarettes, the same thing. Tobacco is one of the most heavily sprayed crops, and so smoking drags all that into the lungs. I wonder why there’s never any mention of that. Hmmm, could it be that Monsanto has a stronger lobby than tobacco growers?