Meat Is Linked to Higher Cancer Risk, W.H.O. Report Finds

The New York Times
Oct. 27, 2015

A panel of busy-body bureaucrats proclaim it to be, therefor it is so. This proclamation by a panel of 22 bureaucrats, 7 of whom disagreed or abstained from voting, involves no new science of any kind and is merely an expression of opinion without any scientific backing.

"Eating meat may, maybe, might, who knows, cause cancer."

All these studies show are loose associations, no actual causation is proven, therefor it's practically meaningless. People who eat red meat tend to have "riskier" diets and lifestyle habits in general, they definitively have not pinpointed their meat consumption as the cause of their cancers, yet they give the false impression they have.

What's remarkable is how many people are actually falling for this bull and acting like this report holds any weight, seven members of their own bullsh*t panel wouldn't even sign on to it, yet I see tons of alternative media sites eating it up with a spoon. - Chris, InfoLib An international panel of experts convened by the World Health Organization concluded Monday that eating processed meat like hot dogs, ham and bacon raises the risk of colon cancer and that consuming other red meats “probably” raises the risk as well. But the increase in risk is so slight that experts said most people should not be overly worried about it.

The panel did not offer specific guidelines on red meat consumption. But its conclusions add support to recommendations made by other scientific groups like the federal government’s dietary guidelines advisory committee, which has long discouraged the consumption of red and processed meat. And the report could also influence health agencies such as the European Food and Safety Commission.

Experts not involved in the report said that the findings should give people more reason to “moderate” their intake of processed meat. But they cautioned that any increased risk of cancer was relatively small.

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