PonderingWillow got the link in first with this story, but I like Steve’s link here, for reasons I will explain after the (now very buried) lead.
Red meat raises your risks of many kinds of cancer. We’re talking esophageal, colorectal, liver, and lung cancer. Cancers, as described in the link Steve sent, in “multiple sites,” like cancer is some kind of real estate deal.
That got me to this revelation, which I just thought was funny:
Red meat is the Donald Trump of cancer.
What does that even mean? I guess if you’re into real estate, Donald Trump is someone who knows his stuff. If you want a lot of cancer, well, I guess you should hang around red meat.
The thing of it is, everybody knows this. Red meat has been “bad for you” for a bazillion years. It’s like cigarettes, but served with mashed potatoes. They could put Surgeon General’s warnings on the stuff, and people will still eat it.
At least until they get a powerful enough reason to change, anyway. Health warnings aren’t cutting it, clearly, nor, I suspect, are incredibly witty sayings involving businessmen. So what’s going to finally get people off of the stuff?
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