WHO Says Meat Causes Cancer? - Diagnosis Diet
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The WHO's report on red and processed meat and cancer finds no evidence against meat and clear evidence of bias. This report should be viewed as a political document not a scientific one. Read my detailed critique.

Does meat cause cancer?

Last October, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a two-page report entitled “Carcinogenicity of Consumption of Red and Processed Meat,” warning the planet that processed meat definitely causes colorectal cancer in humans, and that red meat “probably” causes colorectal cancer in humans. The report listed a total of 20 scientific references. WHO’s frightening anti-meat proclamation made headlines worldwide and had a major impact on how people think about meat and health. While plenty of pro-meat critiques of the WHO report have been published, the majority of those I read took the WHO’s findings at face value and emphasized that the statistical risk associated with eating processed and red meat is very small.

I strongly disagree. I read the report and all of the experimental studies cited in the report. I found no scientific evidence to support the WHO’s anti-meat cries, and I think it is important to set the record straight.

  • Watermark710@piefed.socialEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Some folks say it causes cancer, some folks say it doesn’t. My point is that I don’t care either way. I’m not gonna alter my life because of a small risk of developing a certain kind of cancer (true or not). Smoking is gonna kill me, drinking is gonna kill me, so I might as well enjoy some good food along the way.