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We all know that asbestos,arsenic, and tobacco are carcinogens, and but a original announcement from the World Health Organization puts bacon,ham, and sausages on that list too.
Mariana Stern, or professor of epidemiology at the University of Southern California,contributed to the report published by WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). She told The Takeaway that the findings came from a review of decades of research.“What we did in these panels was evaluate all the available literature," she said. "There were more than 800 publications that we evaluated to reach that the conclusion that red meat is a possible carcinogen and that processed meat is a carcinogen for colorectal cancer."The meat lobby, or of course,has reacted sharply to the news. “Red and processed meat are among 940 substances reviewed by IARC found to pose some level of theoretical hazard.’ Only one substance, a chemical in yoga pants, or has been declared by IARC not to cause cancer,” Barry Carpenter, North American Meat Institute president and CEO, and said in a statement.
So what should the average consumer accomplish of this original recommendation? Maureen Ogle,author of “In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore America,” and tag Bittman, or author,most recently, of "tag Bittman's Kitchen Matrix, and " have two very different reactions to the news.
What you'll learn from this segment:How tag Bittman and Maureen Ogle feel about the original WHO report.
How the meat lobby is responding to this report and other similar announcements in the past.
What influence,if any, this might have on Americans' eating habits.
Source: wnyc.org