World Health Organization: Processed Meat causes Cancer

[PekingPorker]

Well, it's been nice knowing all of you. I guess I have to give up my passion and love of barbecue :crazy:

You know what else causes cancer? Everything.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/processed-meat-causes-cancer-red-meat-probably-does-group-says-n451396

 

[Dmakkk]

Seen that.

 

[blazinfire]

Well damn, I was almost ready to buy a WSM!!!! OH WELL!!!! not gonna stop me!

 

[SGH]

What is really sad is that they say it about everything now, and it's probably true. For over 40 years they told us to take a good multivitamin and give them to children to help prevent cancer. Now they say that they cause it as well. You just can't win. The air that we breath now causes cancer. Guess we all going to have to quit eating and breathing to stand a chance.

 

[SmokerKing]

We're all gonna die from something. I'll go down eating BBQ, drinking bourbon and smokin a stogie.

 

[SmittyJonz]

Breathing causes cancer.

 

[CakeM1x]

So they "discovered" 18% increase in colorectal cancer if eating red meat. Colorectal cancer risk over your lifetime is 5%. I dunno if .9% increase in risk is going to deter me from muh beef.

 

[nickmv]

Cheers! Better smoke some meat to celebrate this!


News flash: life causes you to die.

 

[Fwismoker]

I guess this is a serious study and legitimate. It looks like they are really saying it's more of the cured and processed meats and to a lesser extent the "real" stuff. I know they threw smoked meats into it but that is commonly lumped in with the cured stuff.

 

[Doug Crann]

Patience....there will be a "study" released shortly that lairs the polar opposite....besides, no one gets out alive anyway...

 

[Fwismoker]

Also...at least for me as much as I LOVE stuff like Johnsonville style brats I'm going to eat more of the natural ones that my butcher makes where none of the junk added to them.


Ham is a tough one for me though....Oh how I like double smoked ham!

 

[blazinfire]

I guess this is a serious study and legitimate. It looks like they are really saying it's more of the cured and processed meats and to a lesser extent the "real" stuff. I know they threw smoked meats into it but that is commonly lumped in with the cured stuff.

I was under the same impression. But think about all the bull crap ingredients that are in most processed foods now a days!! I love my sausages and stuff, but man I gotta say they should look into the extra crap they are putting in their processed foods.

 

[blazinfire]

Also...at least for me as much as I LOVE stuff like Johnsonville style brats I'm going to eat more of the natural ones that my butcher makes where none of the junk added to them.


Ham is a tough one for me though....Oh how I like double smoked ham!

I loved Johnsonville style brats until I got my meat grinder! The first two batches I made cheddarwursts and bratwurst. Almost made the johnsonville sausages look nasty! Mine's a solid chunk of meat inside the casing! Johnsville has a different texture

 

[gtr]

Well there goes my plan to wrap salami, pepperoni, sausage, and hotdogs in bacon, then stuff that into a ham, and then eat it every single day.

 

[RolandJT]

I think we all basically knew this anyway. Cured meats can't be that great for you--even forgetting about carcinogens, etc they are very high fat.

I eat them and we all have to make our choices. No really big conspiracy here, and I'd dounbt any opposite conclusion is coming.

I'll celebrate with some home cured pork loin bacon tommorrow morning

 

[GMDGeek]

As my father passed away from Stage 4 colon cancer brought on by what the doctors referred to as a poor diet and health I am well versed in what 'causes' cancer.

Everything in moderation is fine. Hell my great grandma lived to 102 and she ate bacon every morning.

Meat today has more issues with all the GMO / hormones and pesticides used. For home I go organic and natural fed. Big cooks, I love y'all but yeah - processed lol.

Find a middle ground, eat in moderation and remember:
- Forks and Spoons Kill - ban them
- Red Meats Kill - ban them
- Fish Kill - ban them
- Guns Kill - ban them

Sorry this article they put out just fired me up. Misdirection and trying to not focus on what the real issue are with America's and the world's for that matter diet.

 

[cueball21]

We ought to start a betting pool on how long it will be before the politicians turn this into a regulation and taxation issue. They will start a database, no doubt, of people who eat these things after being warned and exclude them from medical services.

 

[Fire Flinger]

I loved Johnsonville style brats until I got my meat grinder! The first two batches I made cheddarwursts and bratwurst. Almost made the johnsonville sausages look nasty! Mine's a solid chunk of meat inside the casing! Johnsville has a different texture

I have to agree with Blazinfire. We have a small "commercial grade" vertical stuffer from Cabelas that will handle 10-11 pounds of of meat at a time. We added the mixer tub last year and just wish we had known about it sooner. Last year we made up about 80 pounds of a bierwurst and jalepeno brats. We split it between 3 families. With all of us working a production line we knocked it out in just a few hours, while knocking out a few beers and glasses of wine as well.:-D It is great fun and a fine way to spend time with friends and family, just like consuming copious quantities of home smoked que.

 

[4ever3]

They aren't talking BBQ... They are talking cured meats, and I'm pretty sure they aren't talking homemade cured meats. They are talking deli meats and hams from the store. You ever look at the ingredients list on that crap?

If you can't pronounce the ingredients why are you putting it in your mouth?

 

[Huh? What?]

As my father passed away from Stage 4 colon cancer brought on by what the doctors referred to as a poor diet and health I am well versed in what 'causes' cancer.

Everything in moderation is fine. Hell my great grandma lived to 102 and she ate bacon every morning.

Meat today has more issues with all the GMO / hormones and pesticides used. For home I go organic and natural fed. Big cooks, I love y'all but yeah - processed lol.

Find a middle ground, eat in moderation and remember:
- Forks and Spoons Kill - ban them
- Red Meats Kill - ban them
- Fish Kill - ban them
- Guns Kill - ban them

Sorry this article they put out just fired me up. Misdirection and trying to not focus on what the real issue are with America's and the world's for that matter diet.

Moderation is for monks. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. - Lazurus Long