Agribusiness nervous as WHO cancer unit analyzes popular pesticide
Twenty-four scientists representing WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) are set to analyze scientific findings regarding links between cancer in humans and the herbicide known as...
View ArticleBeef is on the chopping block, again
By the time you read this editorial, I expect beef will have been dealt another low blow by people who abuse science and their positions of power to push their personal agendas.
View ArticleNewport: Shut up and eat what they tell us!
Junk science triumphs again and the international press is nearly fainting over the danger in its own headlines.
View ArticleBringing home the bacon – I’m a cancer survivor with meat on the menu
This week, the World Health Organisation (WHO) classified processed meat as being carcinogenic to humans and red meat as a probable carcinogen. Bacon has become the darling of the foodie world over the...
View ArticleUSCA: IARC report misleading; established nutritional benefits of beef
“The IARC, an agency of the World Health Organization, is charged with promoting international collaboration in cancer research. However, the report issued differs greatly from current research on the...
View ArticleMeat of the Matter: Another scary study? Ho hum
Yet another report labels red meat as the equivalent of radioactive uranium: Get next to it, and you’re going to die of cancer. But guess what? The media reaction was practically non-responsive.
View ArticleNo convincing associations between red meat and cancer, researcher says
Dominik Alexander, who has extensive experience in health research methodology, meta-analysis and disease causation, as well as nutritional epidemiology, reports on the association between the intake...
View ArticleOpinion: A humane approach to farm-animal antibiotics
With Subway’s recent announcement that it is planning to phase in “antibiotic-free” meat over the next decade, it seems the latest food fad has arrived. Led by environmental groups and Internet...
View ArticleMeat of the Matter: Bringing absurdity into focus
In California, toxic chemicals require warning labels. Now, that law might extend to ‘carcinogenic’ meat products.
View ArticleSome who are certain shouldn’t be!
I heard something I thought was a telling sign of our times during a recent presidential candidate news conference. When asked about the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budgets, candidate Dr. Ben...
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