Calif. considers adding meat to cancer-alert list
By Tom Polansek and P.J. Huffstutter, Reuters
California is examining new World Health Organization findings to determine whether to add red meat and foods like hot dogs, sausages and bacon to a cancer-alert list, setting the stage for a potential battle with the meat industry over warning labels.
The inclusion of meat and processed meat on the list could reduce consumer demand, hurting major producers and processors like Hormel Foods Corp and JBS USA. It could also open the door wider for litigation against meat companies from consumers diagnosed with certain types of cancer.
California has often been at the forefront of consumer-oriented initiatives, particularly regarding agriculture. It rolled out laws for larger chicken cages and restrictions on antibiotic use for livestock ahead of much of the rest of the country.
So, will the next step be raising carnivores’ insurance premiums as they do smokers’?
If we get cancer, can we sue Smithfield?
This new pronouncement by the WHO; I want to see the money trail.
Better to follow the money trail from the meat lobbies.
Just the other day ‘they’ issued a proclamation about whole milk and butter….’they’ve been wrong! Yep
I agree with Hmmm $ Dog ‘follow’ the money
California is the poster child for ridiculousness…time and time again.
Jeez you people spook easily. BOO! Read the article.
guys get real. this is only one study in a long line that notes eating excessive processed meats and red meats has negative health consequences. Minimizing your intake of processed meats and eating only one to two servings (like 4oz) of red meat a week is fine. Simply choose your poison. I factor in a high quality burger about every 6 weeks and eat lean beef about 6 times a month. Based on my annual blood chemistry test, fitness level and now colonoscopy (as I am over 60) I am doing quite well. Most folks who load their diet with red meat are likely overweight, and/or poor blood chemistry test, and have a higher likelihood of succumbing from heart disease and/or colon cancers. The best form of health insurance is to be pro-active in a healthy diet. The WHO study is simply consistent with previous studies.
Rick
Rick
How factory farmed meat is ‘done’ in this country is BAD JUJU.