The WHO has declared red meat a carcinogen. So, Dr Christopher Labos asks the question we're all thinking: Is a hot dog really as bad as a cigarette?
On the one hand, meat makes you strong, and it’s every American’s God-given right to grill a steak on his barbecue during the summer. I believe this came up in a church synod at some point…
Many people around the world eat animals, but we don’t all eat the same animals. For example, this is a cow, often used to make hamburger and steak. And this is Tobi, God’s perfect angel who gets a more elaborate birthday party than I do each year. He is my son, and I would throw myself in front of a moving car for him.
Now, there’s another thing we need to explain. We have red meat, but we also have processed red meat. Processed red meat is when red meat is transformed in some way — and that doesn’t mean cooking. If you just take a piece of steak and cook it on your barbecue or in the oven, that’s not processed meat. Processing is doing things like salting the meat, smoking it, or curing it. Processed meat includes items like bacon, sausages, hot dogs, salami, corn beef, and smoked meat.
IARC is researching hazard. They are evaluating whether something is associated with cancer, not how risky that something is. IARC categorizes everything into groups: carcinogenic to humans, probably carcinogenic, possibly carcinogenic, or not classifiable. There is technically a "not carcinogenic" group, but there’s nothing in there. Well, there was one substance in there for a bit, but they removed it. Comment below if you know what that substance is.
In food science, randomized controlled trials are hard to conduct, because telling people what to eat is often met with "make me." Regardless, the NutriRECS Consortium conclusion was, “Keep eating meat, as the data is uncertain because most of it is observational.
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