Smoke your meat, my friends. A cross-sectional study of this type of data will yield crappy, linkbait-friendly results. For confounders, they didn't look at:

Smoke your meat, my friends. A cross-sectional study of this type of data will yield crappy, linkbait-friendly results. For confounders, they didn't look at: income, geography, genetics (self-reported ethnicity is not a good proxy), etc. etc. etc. The time and sample scale for powerful epidemiological research often seems higher than publish! publish! publish! researchers are given time and money to do. Any morsel of truth to animal protein having a negative effect is lost in the structure of the study and data available.