Red Meat and Cancer

The article Baloney Science On The Perils Of Meat by David Becker talks about the newly found accusations against red meat. These accusations say that eating red meat can lead to a higher possibility of developing prostate cancer and advanced prostate cancer. However, the article also says that these newly found facts about red meat are meant to just reach headlines and grab attention rather than actually hold any actual importance. This is something that grabbed my attention. I mean, why even talk about it if it’s doing no good at all for the public. However, there is no stopping the media these days so the new facts must be disputed and this article by David Becker does just that. The article is basically just arguing the claim that red meat causes prostate cancer and its advanced form.

Within the article, Becker refers to a Dr. David Newman who believes that the statistics showing that red meat causes prostate cancer are so miniscule that he refers to them as laughable. The study that does support the idea that red meat causes cancer is so far-fetched that Dr. Newman says that these results will basically be thrown out the window eventually. As I read the article and looked through the supporting evidence, I too couldn’t believe that people were even making a big deal out of it. The percent increase within meat eaters and their likeliness to get prostate cancer compared to non-meat eaters is literally half a percent.

To me, this is just the media making a big deal out of nothing like they sometimes do and making more problems for the public to worry about. After I read the article, I came upon the conclusion that unless some sort of new evidence and statistics are brought to everyone’s attention then this should just be forgotten about.