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meat, cancer and credibility
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the big 'cs' got the meat industry in trouble last week - cancer and credibility. in the face of a major scientific study linking a 30 per cent increased risk of cancer with processed meat products, industry associations reacted quite strongly against the findings - when they would have been wiser to have just kept their mouths shut. the scientific review of 7,000 studies was completed for the world cancer research fund (wcrf) and the american institute for cancer research, very credible organisations. the scientists concluded that raw and processed meats are "convincing or probable causes of some cancers". they also recommended that "people who eat red meat" should consume less than 500 g a week "very little if any to be processed". they also went out of their way to emphasise that their "overall recommendation is not for diets containing no meat - or diets containing no foods of animal origin". in other words, eat meat if you have to, but sparingly. andrew wadge, chief scientist for the uk's food standards agency, quite rightly noted on his blog that the consumer would have had a hard week of digesting the cancer study (along with another on folic acid). "i suspect that most people will simply ignore these messages and carry on with their usual dietary habits, which is a shame because there are relatively easy steps we can take to improve our diet and reduce risks of disease," he wrote. as a massive meat eater myself (my french friends have nicknamed me 'mr barbeque"), i will find it hard or impossible to follow this advice, and so too, i suspect, will most non-vegetarians. processed foods are also a part of the make up of our daily modern diet. a more perfect diet would of course be to eat entirely fresh foods, cooked from scratch. but we must remember spam and other processed products of that ilk, have saved many lives during wartime and emergencies, and during peace offer the convenience that frees us up to have some fun time during our fast paced lives. and increasingly some of the processed ready-to-eat products on the market are frankly better tasting than i might have been able to make myself. so in reality the cancer study posed no foreseeable direct economic threat to the meat sector. why then did the meat sectors in north america and europe react against the report so strongly? the american meat institute was the most extreme, discounting the study as biased and plain wrong. the organisation claimed bizarrely that the cancer associations were "anti-meat" in the first place. "wcrf's conclusions are extreme, unfounded and out of step with dietary guidelines," said one of the ami's scientists, randy huffman, citing us dietary guidelines put out by government regulators. i thought that dietary guidelines are based on science among other factors - and not vice versa! the uk's meat organisations approached the issue in a more moderate tone, noting that processed meat is "part of a balanced diet", and also referring to dietary guidelines. the problem is the story was already out in the media as a hot conclusion from a credible organisation. in the face of this media coverage any statements from the meat industry, other than "follow the advice of eating less meat", would sound non-credible to any consumer. they would have been advised at this point to remain quiet and watch the study's conclusions disappear off consumers' agendas. ahmed elamin is editor of foodproductiondaily.com. he is a business journalist who specialises in development issues, food, wine, technology, international business and finance. to comment on this article please e-mail ahmed.elamin@decisionnews.com.
Source :Food Ingredients Food Science - Additives, Flavours, Starch
Date :
5
November
2007
Category :
Meat Products
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large european study supports previous findings that suggests red and processed meat consumption increases the risk of colorectal cancer, fuelling immediate reaction from meat industry that claims the study fails to "prove cause and effect", reports lindsey partos. the eu wide research that spanned ten countries and tracked nearly half a million consumers concluded colorectal risk increases by 49 per cent per 100 grams of daily consumed red meat, to cover pork, beef, veal, and lamb.
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cutting back meat consumption is the new darling cause of pop stars. but if necessary environmental and health goals are to be achieved, the whole supply chain needs to be strumming along in tune. john mccartney, yoko ono and moby stepped out together on the ‘green carpet’ in june to launch the uk’s meat-free mondays campaign. over in belgium, the city of ghent has declared that public officials and school kids are to take a one-day holiday from meat eating each week.
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diet and cancer are directly linked, with alcohol and red and processed meats posing particular risks, according to the world cancer research fund's (wcrf) study released this week. a panel of world-renowned scientists looked at 7,000 studies published since the 1960s. entitled food, nutrition, physical activity, and the prevention of cancer, the report includes 10 recommendations on how to prevent cancer.
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new research supports previous findings that suggest a diet high in red meat could be a risk factor for cancer. high consumption of red and processed meats - but not fat or cholesterol -could raise the risk of pancreatic cancer, claim researchers at the cancer research center of hawaii. tracking 190,000 consumers over seven years through a multiethnic cohort study, the scientists say participants in the highest quintile of processed meat intake had a 68 per cent increased risk of pancreatic cancer compared with those in the lowest quintile.
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a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed last july against several hotdog makers by vegan advocacy group cancer project that claimed hotdogs should carry a cancer warning label. the cancer project, an affiliate of the physicians committee for responsible medicine, said it was acting on behalf of three new jersey residents and filed a class-action consumer fraud lawsuit, arguing that hotdogs should carry the following label: “warning: consuming hot dogs and other processed meats increases the risk of cancer\", after several studies linked the consumption of processed meat with higher cancer risk.
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reduction of meat and dairy intake on climate change grounds would pose nutritional concerns for some nutrients but better public health advice on alternative sources and fortification could bridge the gap, write nutritional and climate experts from the uk. the food system is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, with food supply thought to account for some 19 per cent of the uk’s emissions.
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high intake of red and processed meats may raise the risk of lung and colorectal cancer by up to 20 per cent, according to a new study from researchers at the usa's national cancer institute. half a million people were surveyed for the new study that also reports raised risks of other cancers, including throat and liver cancer, report the researchers in the open access journal the public library of science - medicine .
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headlines continue to raise concerns over the 
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