"Feed the Man Meat" - perhaps not!

I wonder if there is now a possibility of suing the organisations that started off the campaign in Australia about the need to 'feed the man meat'

The latest information from the ABC is that there is now research which seems to link the consumption of red and processed meat with lung and colorectal cancers and this of course includes oesophageal cancer.

"People who eat a lot of red meat and processed meats have a higher risk of several types of cancer, including lung cancer and colorectal cancer, US researchers have reported.

The work is the first big study to show a link between meat consumption and lung cancer. It also shows that people who eat a lot of meat have a higher risk of liver and esophageal cancer and that men raise their risk of pancreatic cancer by eating red meat.

"A decrease in the consumption of red and processed meat could reduce the incidence of cancer at multiple sites," Dr Amanda Cross and colleagues at the US National Cancer Institute wrote in their report, published in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Medicine."

Very soon if this research continues we are likely to find that it is better to eat the occasional bit of unprocessed grain and fruit and perhaps if you happen to be of 'middle eastern appearance' the occasional date! everything else is simply unhealthy.

It's at this point that you can probably get me started on GM crops and what sort of a mess THAT is likely to produce in the next few years.

There goes my last argument against being a vegetarian!