Meat Officially Causes Cancer

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UN health body says bacon, sausages and ham among most carcinogenic substances along with cigarettes, alcohol, asbestos and arsenic.

Bacon, ham and sausages rank alongside cigarettes as a major cause of cancer, the World Health Organisation has said, placing cured and processed meats in the same category as asbestos, alcohol, arsenic and tobacco.

The report from the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer said there was enough evidence to rank processed meats as group 1 carcinogens because of a causal link with bowel cancer.

It places red meat in group 2A, as “probably carcinogenic to humans”. Eating red meat is also linked to pancreatic and prostate cancer, the IARC says.

The IARC’s experts concluded that each 50-gram (1.8-ounce) portion of processed meat eaten daily increased the risk of colorectal cancer by 18%.

“For an individual, the risk of developing colorectal cancer because of their consumption of processed meat remains small, but this risk increases with the amount of meat consumed,” said Dr Kurt Straif, head of the IARC monographs programme. “In view of the large number of people who consume processed meat, the global impact on cancer incidence is of public health importance.”

The decision from the IARC, after a year of deliberations by international scientists, will be welcomed by cancer researchers but it triggered an immediate and furious response from the industry, and the scientists it funds, who rejected any comparison between cigarettes and meat.

“What we do know is that avoiding red meat in the diet is not a protective strategy against cancer,” said Robert Pickard, a member of the Meat Advisory Panel and emeritus professor of neurobiology at Cardiff University. “The top priorities for cancer prevention remain smoking cessation, maintenance of normal body weight and avoidance of high alcohol intakes.”.

But the writing has been on the wall for ham, bacon and sausages for several years. The World Cancer Research Fund has long been advising people that processed meat is a cancer hazard. It advises eating products such as ham, bacon and salami as little as possible and having no more than 500g a week of red meat, including beef, pork and lamb.

Prof Tim Key, Cancer Research UK’s epidemiologist at the University of Oxford, said: “Cancer Research UK supports IARC’s decision that there’s strong enough evidence to classify processed meat as a cause of cancer, and red meat as a probable cause of cancer.

“We’ve known for some time about the probable link between red and processed meat and bowel cancer, which is backed by substantial evidence.

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[RonnieGarz]

OP im ready to go. gimme a BLT Stat

[EnglishBadTeeth]

so muslims come and now bacon is illegal?

[FearThisjake]

Pretty sure everything causes cancer.

[RonnieGarz]

ban meat

[StateIron]

The UN is full of **** and Islam. Gee, pork is bad for you? OK *******s, we will ban pork.

[Brawlbro]

everything causes cancer but with one a day multi you can fight it

[RhinoBody]

Beef companies hate him

[Deathstroke]

Alot of things can potentially cause health issues.

Like caffeine which also has it's benefits. Coffee can put you at risk for things, but can actually prevent things.

You're damned if you don't, damned if you do.

Some foods are easier to overload on than others.. my buddy onhere thinks I eat too much chicken, and said I can overload on it. But I like to eat chicken, so I say fukk him.

God damnit Scrilla that f*cked with me!!!!!!!

[unicornsRreal]

People from the United Kingdom cause cancer.

[eod8989]

I've smoked a lot of cigs, drank a lot of alcohol and ate a lot of sausages in my life

I'm ****ed brahs

[Dave P]

It's pretty irresponsible for them to say meat causes cancer when in reality they are talking about nitrites/nitrates in meats.

Everyone has known about nitrates and the link to cancer for a long time now.

Using click bait approaches to announcements....kinda sad.

[Deathstroke]

I've smoked a lot of cigs, drank a lot of alcohol and ate a lot of sausages in my life

I'm ****ed brahs

Oh yeah, love my alcohol. I quit smoking cigs, but I do still smoke....I just roll my own things that I smoke.......if ya know what I'm sayin. Or pack my own (sorry if I gave a tough code to CRACK)

[JazB]

Its a desperate plot to turn us all into liberal marxist vegans

[TruKnight]

IBS Hardcore Vegan.

cool story brah.

[inq]

Is it the meat itself, or the preservatives/hormones/antibiotics/etc. that they pump into meat that causes cancer?

[TkHomie]

It's pretty irresponsible for them to say meat causes cancer when in reality they are talking about nitrites/nitrates in meats.

Everyone has known about nitrates and the link to cancer for a long time now.

Using click bait approaches to announcements....kinda sad.

This this and this.

Came in thread thinking all meat causes cancer based on wording of
the title, leaving knowing this is click bait.

[Marie646]

[Deathstroke]

Save the animals, eat the vegetarians/vegans.

We should all eat OP. This gonna be you Jimbob:

[Train57]

its actually the truth but they just taste too good to drop

breakfast

crispy bacon



toast with butter



fried steak with gravy on top



waffle with butter and syrup



sunny side up eggs



could do everyday

[MajesticLion]

It's pretty irresponsible for them to say meat causes cancer when in reality they are talking about nitrites/nitrates in meats.

Everyone has known about nitrates and the link to cancer for a long time now.

Using click bait approaches to announcements....kinda sad.

That's not the only thing. You might want to read the entire report.

[dtoxUK]

But who was food regulators stopping companies mass producing this filth?

[NYPat]

So what's left? Chicken and Turkey?

[SteadyWayfarer]

The Sun also does this. Brb no fap, no meat, no sun, no pillow. Am i missing anything?

[ghjk24]

brb eating some chicken

zero fukks given

[Fivefootkillerz]

[jimbob007]

Save the animals, eat the vegetarians/vegans.

We should all eat OP. This gonna be you Jimbob:

[xavengedx23]

Lol don't even care crew. On the road to dying ASAP crew