Scientists Debunk WHO Cancer Claims About Meat
By AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
Boston, Massachusetts
October 26, 2015 2:51pm CST
Not surprisingly, a lot of scientists have taken issue with WHO's ridiculous claims that eating meat is as big a cancer risk as smoking. In fact, they are calling it misleading and possibly dangerous for some groups of people. For instance, teenage girls often have an iron intake that is too low and giving up red meat deprives them of a significant source of iron.
And the only cancer that processed meat is associated with is bowel cancer. But a study showed that meat eaters and vegetarians have roughly the same rates of bowel cancer.
So, basically, as I tried to convey with my satirical post on the study, it's bunkum.
And vegetarianism is a lifestyle choice, according to Professor Robert Prickard, Emeritus Professor of Neurobiology at Cardiff University. He says that it's not necessary for health.
They didn't address the health risks of meat with human DNA. 
Don't eat hotdogs!
The UN is getting desperate to make us all go along with their crazy ideas, but when they are desperate, they come out with these wild claims.- so wild, that even scientists can see how ridiculous they are.
Don't eat hotdogs!
The UN is getting desperate to make us all go along with their crazy ideas, but when they are desperate, they come out with these wild claims.- so wild, that even scientists can see how ridiculous they are.
Scientists have rounded on the World Health Organisation for claiming that red meat, sausages, bacon and ham could cause cancer.
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@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
26 Oct 15
Absolutely. You are spot on there Anja.
The origin of the word Vegetarian is 'A person who does not eat meat and was ancient slang for the village idiot who was too stupid to go out and hunt it for himself' !
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@celticeagle (168420)
• Boise, Idaho
27 Oct 15
Meat was processed, at best, with salt in the beginning, not chemicals. That is where the difference comes.
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@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
27 Oct 15
A study in Britain showed no difference in bowel cancer rates between vegetarians and meat eaters, so the meat isn't causing cancer at all. Whether or not the chemicals are harmful in other ways, I can't say. But there's no proof that they cause cancer.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
26 Oct 15
It's all about balance. You need iron, you need protein. You can get that from other sources than meat. But you have to get it. If you are going to go a certain route, with your eating, then you need to do your research and be sure you still get everything you need to get, from alternative sources.
People breathe air, all people who get cancer breathe, therefor air causes cancer.... that is totally what this reminds me of.
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@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
26 Oct 15
It's really important to get the right nutrition, not just one kind or another. Cancer is the big scary, the word frightens people. That is why they chose cancer. Because they've already proved that their former theories about meat causing cardiovascular disease were wrong.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
27 Oct 15
@Rollo1 pretty much, you could be vegan, carnivore, or any kind of eater really, if you get your supliments and make sure you get everything you need.
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
27 Oct 15
@Raelove i have a feeling it's much more complicated than one thing, it's several things, and one of those is prob a genetic predisposition or something
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
26 Oct 15
I personally don't eat meat because I don't like fat. It happened when I was small and my parents bought a cow and had it butchered. We basically lived on steaks for almost a year. I learned at this time to hate meat and as I grew older I never really liked it either. I do eat a lot of chicken and now it is mostly chicken that we grow here. I don't really like all the stuff they feed animals to make them grow faster and get nice and fat. Like it said it's a personal choice. I personally don't feel like meat is the problem for cancer I feel like it is what they feed to the animals causes it.
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@celticeagle (168420)
• Boise, Idaho
27 Oct 15
@poehere ..I think that we need to remember that it the fake stuff given to the animals that makes their meat bad for us, not the meat itself.
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@CaptAlbertWhisker (32747)
• Calgary, Alberta
27 Oct 15
There is an annoying YouTube star known as "freely the banana girl" she is this hardcore extremist vegan who said meat causes cancer and meat eaters reserve to die. I want this article to he slapped on her face.
@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
27 Oct 15
our teeth have evolved to allow us to chew and tear into both meat and veg.
@BelleStarr (61101)
• United States
26 Oct 15
I listen to a discussion about this today on BBC and the report was based off of a bunch of studies some more valid than others. Poor idea that!!
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@Tampa_girl7 (50561)
• United States
27 Oct 15
It really seems like everything causes cancer, ugh
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@Marilynda1225 (83103)
• United States
26 Oct 15
When I saw this today I thought what???? crazy thinking
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@boiboing (13153)
• Northampton, England
26 Oct 15
That said, if the whole world went vegetarian, we could actually feed everyone.
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
26 Oct 15
@boiboing We could feed the world if half the world were involved in agrarian pursuits instead of war and civil strife. There is an enormous amount of arable land lying fallow because of wars, revolutions, land seizures , being bought by multinational corporations, etc. Very young children cannot go vegetarian, they will be malnourished. Eating meat was a key factor in our physical and social evolution. It's natural.
@Macarrosel (7498)
• Philippines
27 Oct 15
I have seen this in the CNN news this morning. Anyway, thanks for sharing it here for me to be informed more about it.
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