The ‘Science’ Is ‘Settled’: World Health Organization Says Meat Causes Cancer [Jude]

PJ Media ^ | 10/26/2015 | Michael Walsh

[Jan_Sobieski]

For now, it’s just processed meats. But you know they’re coming for that steak on your table and maybe even your Thanksgiving turkey or Christmas ham. Because fascists gotta do what fascists gotta do, and first they use “science” to get the ball rolling: Processed meats – such as bacon, sausages and ham – do cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Its report said 50g of processed meat a day – less than two slices of bacon – increased the chance of developing colorectal cancer by 18%. Meanwhile, it said red meats were “probably carcinogenic” but there was limited evidence.

But the WHO said meat did also have health benefits. Maybe that’s why human beings have been eating meat since the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Meanwhile: Processed meat is meat that has been modified to increase its shelf-life or alter its taste – such as by smoking, curing or adding salt or preservatives. It is these additions which could be increasing the risk of cancer. “For an individual, the risk of developing colorectal (bowel) cancer because of their consumption of processed meat remains small, but this risk increases with the amount of meat consumed,” Dr Kurt Straif from the WHO said.

Remember –if it saves just one life… unless you’re talking abortion, in which case by all means murder away...

[daniel1212]

Because those who drank of the New Wine of the gospel have found the Most High superior to any earthly buzz.

[Bob434]

[[Its report said 50g of processed meat a day – less than two slices of bacon – increased the chance of developing colorectal cancer by 18%. Meanwhile,]]

ooooh scary- 18% My goodness- but what does this really mean? It does NOT mean you have an 18% chance of getting colon cancer- it means that of all the folks who get colon cancer, (which is only 5% of the world’s population), there will be an 18% increase which raises this 5% figure up to 6% chance- meaning you will only have a 6% chance of getting cancer if you eat processed meat every day

[[Overall, the lifetime risk of developing colorectal cancer in the U.S. is about 1 in 20, or 5 percent, according to the cancer society. By the WHO’s calculations, having a cold-cut sandwich every day would only raise that to around 6 percent.]]

http://poststar.com/business/un-agency-links-hot-dogs-and-other-processed-meat-to/article_f073e02e-31d0-52b8-a3a5-4675b9ce45df.html

[Bob434]

[[The baseline risk for a 50 year old man for developing colorectal cancer over the next ten years is 0.68%.]]

according to the article I cited above, folks have apparently a 5% chance of getting colon cancer (or 1 in 20 people)

[Eleutheria5]

You’re comparing wine to beer. Frenchmen make good wine. Englishmen and Germans make good beer. That itself tells you something. Poles don’t make it with any distinction, but they sure like to drink it and sing polka songs. In Heaven there is no beer...

[Eleutheria5]

If you eat tofu for 120 years, you will live longer. If you eat fried bacon for 120 years, it will shorten your life span.

[daniel1212]

. In Heaven there is no beer...

But if it did then it would be free, and you would not get drunk (or want to) or overweight.