Will You Stop Eating Meat?

[Gromit]

The World Health Organisation has just said that processed meat is carcinogenic. And red meat is 'probably' carcinogenic too.

Will you heed the warnings?

[Pete65]

Pony, Tora?

[ToraToraTora]

pony and trap......

[RATTER15]

Load of nonsense, if we paid any attention to such reports it wouldn't be safe to eat anything!

I will eat meat till my dying day!

[Copacetic]

Alcohol increases the risk of bowel cancer as well so are you going to abstain from that as well..?

[youngmafbog]

Won't stop me, just thawed out a nice steak for tea and thawing some bacon for breakfast.

And what does 'processed' mean anyway. Some sausages are just minced meat and bacon is often simply smoked, so does smoked haddock and kippers all come under fire?

As TTT points out many in such organisations as WHO have their own Agenda's and are now using scare tactics to push their case.

[youngmafbog]

Crossing the road and driving a car increases risk of death. Better not do that either !!

[pastafreak]

I wonder what the bowel cancer rate is in a country such as Italy...where there is a long tradition of consumption of cured/smoked meats.
I will continue to eat as I do.

[Barsel]

youngmafbog, I might be wrong about this but hasn't it already been said that smoked products are carcinogenic? I'm pretty sure I read once that food cooked on a barbecue isn't good for you.I have been thinking lately about stopping processed meat but I will still eat fresh meat with veggies.

[jomifl]

I like the way the media creates scares, Sky news today stated that there is as much evidence for red meat causing cancer as there is for smoking causing cancer. You might at first sight think that the two were equivalent, however it could be that there is as much evidence for red meat causing a 1% increase in cancer as there is for smoking causing a 50% increase. Statistics Eh......

[ludwig]

It's well known that if you give up everything that makes life worth living you can live to a ripe old age. Everything in moderation is a pretty good rule of thumb.

[vulcan42]

Why aren't these organisations made to publish the evidence they are basing this report on? In the report it refers to "the best available scientific evidence" later it refers to "limited evidence". If the best available scientific evidence is limited, how can they make such widespread assumptions?

[Jackdaw33]

Radio?

[Mamyalynne]

There are some links here and I believe a synopsis in The Lancet.


http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2015/pdfs/pr240_E.pdf

[tamborine]

Protein diet is a necessity in cold climates.

[Old_Geezer]

Apparently it's in the same category as smoking, drinking, and asbestos exposure. I hadn't realised all these things were so safe. No need to be careful of any of them in the future then.

[woofgang]

I think it was Cancer Research who announced that eating smoked meat like ham and bacon carried an increased risk of cancer IIRC more than 8 years ago.

[woofgang]

ludwig, even if you don't live longer, it certainly feels like it!

[keyplus90]

I might be wrong but I believe that they are talking about Pork and not about all of the red meat.

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34615621

The report is careful not to say that eating meat always causes cancer, in fact it says ::::: "50g of processed meat a day - less than two slices of bacon - increased the chance of developing colorectal cancer by 18%"

The vast majority of People in Britain never develop colorectal cancers, at all !