Does meat really cause cancer?

Here's a good excerpt from an (old) article I found at thehealthierlife.co.uk. Trying to find some more updated research online, to no avail.


Read anyways, good info:

Hold the hormones

First of all - and most obvious - eating red meat does not 'cause' colorectal cancer. Not even close. According to one of the researchers, a person who eats red meat a couple of times each week would qualify for the lowest consumption group for this study, putting them at very low risk.

And finally, what is it about meat that might cause colorectal cancer? Researchers speculate that fat may be to blame, or the iron content, or the nitrates used as preservatives, or the way meat is cooked.

Or it might be the hormones...especially the use of them in the US.

According to the Organic Consumers Association in the US, about two thirds of the cattle produced in the US are treated with several growth hormones allowed by the US Department of Agriculture and the US Food and Drug Administration. One of these hormones - 17 beta-oestradiol (a synthetic version of the female hormone progesterone) - has been proven to be carcinogenic. Fortunately, the European Union has banned the importation of any cattle treated with 17 beta- oestradiol.

Suddenly organic beef sounds pretty appealing.

So the next time you read an article with an absurdly simplistic phrase like, 'Eating red meat causes colorectal cancer,' you'll know that's probably just the hormones talking.


And then PETA's all over it saying full-on "Meat causes cancer!", read & judge for yourself.