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Meat eating, it will kill you - time for it to be banned

Vegan | 14.03.2012 10:24 | Animal Liberation

Researchers from the Harvard Medical School in the US studies 120,000 people over three decades have discovered that eating red meat will decrease life expectancy.

Time to ban eating meat now as a matter of public health. Feeding meat to children should be considered child abuse and the parents prosecuted.


Eating one extra portion of red meat per day will increase the risk of death by up to 13%.
Although processed meat, which is usually ostracised by dieticians for being pumped full of rubbish, was found to be the most dangerous, it was found that eating unprocessed meat still caused higher rates of mortality from cancer and cardiovascular problems than not eating it at all.

Indeed, eating just one portion extra of red meat a day can lead to a 13% increase in the risk of death. This is thought to be due to the higher levels of saturated fat in such meats, as well as the sodium used when processing.


This evidence points clearly to the need for a ban on all meat eating to protect public health. There can no longer be any argument on this issue - eating meat kills you.

Vegan

Comments

Display the following 52 comments

  1. Know the risk, make the choice — Hockey player
  2. Truth! — Info head
  3. Choice — Vegan
  4. Take a closer look at what you just said — MDN
  5. In reply to MDN — Vegan
  6. True or false, you decide... — Corrector
  7. It won't kill me! — Happy Vegan
  8. Boy are you missing out 'happy vegan' — Isn't 'happy vegan' an oxymoron ?
  9. Monsanto Propaganda — Animism Anarchist
  10. Food is not the only problem — 1 of far too many
  11. The real face of veganism! Authoritarian asshole.. — Aunty Christ
  12. troll alert! — real vegan
  13. Nobody cares what you think 'Aunty Christ ' — Vegan
  14. Screening potential parents ?????????? — Action T4 - not in my name
  15. "Real Vegan"... I don't think so — Vegan
  16. This is a simple moral argument — Vegan since the age of 13
  17. Lets be adults please, these animals are dying for nothing. — Vegan
  18. Well — another Vegan
  19. Such a shame — Vegetarian, not that it matters
  20. F'ing hell people, what's wrong with ya? — Shelter of Crime
  21. @Vegetarian, not that it matters — Vegan_x
  22. not conclusive — max
  23. Oxy moron — Happy Vegan
  24. The world is anarchic — deal with it
  25. meat eating reduces life expectancy... — anarchist
  26. Perhaps we should... — ktf
  27. Eating vegetarians — Happy Vegan
  28. Science of Evolution Does Tell a Story. — C. Darwin & Unity Jack
  29. What a load bollocks — B
  30. re: "Real Vegan"... I don't think so — Real Vegan
  31. Perhaps missing my point? — MDN
  32. Needs must — Vegan
  33. 50% of statistics are made up — Vegan anarchist
  34. not vegan - eat meat and less grains and beans — Hunter gatherer food types
  35. You REALLY don't get it — MDN
  36. @ MDN — Vegan
  37. "so why is it ok to eat cows ? " — relaxed meat eater
  38. This study is useless — Bored
  39. For "Bored" — Vegan
  40. Meanwhile — get a fucking grip
  41. Typical AR Perversion of Empathy — Steak and Chips
  42. Its obvious — anon
  43. What is wrong with the world — Concerned
  44. Bigger fight ? — Vegan
  45. yes it is ok — stoney
  46. Stage two — Vegan
  47. re: Its obvious — vegan
  48. re: Stage two — anon
  49. Red meat's good for you. — Nicola
  50. some replies — stoney
  51. Sensible advice, please read. — Emily F
  52. ban all meat and hunting — hunter
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