'The womanization of protein consumption': Canadians quickly turning away from meat
10-30-2018, 04:44 PM
I've gotten into internet arguments with retarded vegans and vegetarians, either practicing or proponents thereof, and they dither and shriek endlessly about how meat is carcinogenic without understanding any of the science behind it. They don't understand how math works, and they think every statement is binary.
They believe that nitrates are dangerous, which is only half correct. It's impossible that all nitrates and nitrites are dangerous - since while bacon and processed meats contain nitrates, beets have 10-20x more per weight, or more. Not to mention, that human saliva itself contains far more nitrates than bacon ever can. Roughly 70-90% of daily human exposure to nitrates is caused by your own saliva.
After a lot of looking into the scientific studies that support meat being carcinogenic - what they bitch about is a substance called 'heme iron', which can slightly increase the risk of colon cancer. About five percent of the American population (basically the same between men and women) will get colon cancer in their lifetimes. Higher incidental consumption of heme iron due to red meat increases this risk about six percent - but only within that particular population. Six percent is considered statistically significant, so the "red meat cancer hurdur" stuck. Other studies done afterwards claim as high as 20 percent.
So eating red meat is only going to increase the rate of colon cancer by one sixteenth of one twentieth, or as high as one fifth of one twentieth - to a grand total of a .3 to 1% risk increase over the average individual's lifetime.
They believe that nitrates are dangerous, which is only half correct. It's impossible that all nitrates and nitrites are dangerous - since while bacon and processed meats contain nitrates, beets have 10-20x more per weight, or more. Not to mention, that human saliva itself contains far more nitrates than bacon ever can. Roughly 70-90% of daily human exposure to nitrates is caused by your own saliva.
After a lot of looking into the scientific studies that support meat being carcinogenic - what they bitch about is a substance called 'heme iron', which can slightly increase the risk of colon cancer. About five percent of the American population (basically the same between men and women) will get colon cancer in their lifetimes. Higher incidental consumption of heme iron due to red meat increases this risk about six percent - but only within that particular population. Six percent is considered statistically significant, so the "red meat cancer hurdur" stuck. Other studies done afterwards claim as high as 20 percent.
So eating red meat is only going to increase the rate of colon cancer by one sixteenth of one twentieth, or as high as one fifth of one twentieth - to a grand total of a .3 to 1% risk increase over the average individual's lifetime.