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a member of the Meat Advisory Panel... said "“The top priorities for cancer prevention remain smoking cessation, maintenance of normal body weight and avo
by myth_buster 11y ago
a member of the Meat Advisory Panel... said "“The top priorities
for cancer prevention remain smoking cessation, maintenance of
normal body weight and avoidance of high alcohol intakes.”"
emeritus fellow at the Institute of Food Research, also said the
effect was small.
The North American Meat Institute said defining red meat as a cancer
hazard defied common sense.
Due to economies of McDonald's, Burger King et al, there appears to be an intense lobbying group
which would go against any attempt to bring forth discussion on this topic.
I won't be surprised if a decade or two from now we see the issue in the same light as Lead
poisoning primarily due to someone's[1] fight against the status quo.
On a related topic, there is an interesting documentary Cowspiracy [0] (available on Netflix)
which talks about the carbon footprint caused by the animal husbandry. Although it's feature
length, I think the first two acts are compelling.
[0] http://www.cowspiracy.com/ http://www.cowspiracy.com/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_Cameron_Patterson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_Cameron_Patterson
Edit: Flow.
- ascorbic 11y ago"McDonald's, Burger King et al" aren't really affected by this. This is about smoked, salted or otherwise preserved meats. "Processed" doesn't covered mincing/grinding. They may be covered by the weaker claims about red meat in general.
- myth_buster 11y agoI don't think they would make that distinction and let it by. They wouldn't let any kind of meat be cast in bad light as it would affect them by association.
- tkyjonathan 11y agoBurgers count towards processed meats. Especially when it comes ready made from a factory for the staff in the restaurant to heat up.
- PerfectElement 11y agoCowspiracy and Earthlings are documentaries that most people prefer to ignore. Hopefully, now that DiCaprio is behind Cowspiracy, and got it into Netflix, it will be noticed by a wider audience. I doubt it will be very popular here though, given the strong cognitive bias I noticed in HN when the subject is diet.
- eivarv 11y agoI watched Cowspiracy a while ago. While many of its points are valid (as far as I can tell), I was personally distracted by the pseudo-conspiratorial subnarrative regarding the NGOs' focus on easier goals. I felt the same about the storytelling in Cowspiracy as I did about many of Michael Moore's films: the "personal struggle"-style and an indignant narrator detracts from the main points, which could instead be more fleshed out in detail. BUT: People don't ignore the points these two documentaries bring up because they haven't heard them; they do it because they are able to (and it's very easy and convenient to do so at present). PS. Diet is one of several subjects here on HN (and elsewhere) that tend to be fraught with anecdotes and fads.