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Meat and cancer link in the headlines again

Hot Potatoe | 26.08.2008 14:18 | Animal Liberation | Health

Meat Kills

Meat and cancer link in the headlines again
Posted 26 August 2008
 http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/news_veggie//1889//

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Clarification?

26.08.2008 15:21

From the linked article...

"Reports in the media today (Tuesday 26th August) state 'traditional full English fry-ups may raise the risk of bowel cancer by 63 per cent'."

This is looking distinctly like statistics abuse. If the initial risk is 1:1,000,000 then a 63% rise gives a risk of 1.63:1,000,000. All of a sudden it's not so dramatic, is it? It might also be nice if there was a reference to these "Reports in the media...".


"Studies have shown that those who follow a meat-free diet have a lower risk of suffering from obesity, heart disease, and diabetes as well as some cancers."

They also have a higher probability of getting a reasonable amount of exercise and not sitting on their arse all day eating chips - a link to some of these studies would allow us to see if these factors have been taken into account.

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Not helpful

26.08.2008 16:09

Monkeybot has got a point but I'm not sure the vegetarian movement is well served by having people closely analyze the reality of veggie v carnivore fitness. The facts are that meat is probably just as healthy as a vegetarian diet (that's what the human body has evolved to eat after all) so do we really want to get people to investigate it ? I think not

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