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Maybe because studies in the past two years suggest that red meat is actually quite dangerous with frequent consumption.

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The WHO said that red meat is probably a carcinogen, and that processed red meat is definitely a carcinogen.

But the amount of cancer they cause is quite small.

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2015/10October/Pages/Processed-meat-c...

> A key statistic provided by the infographic is that if everyone stopped smoking, there would be 64,500 fewer cases of cancer a year in the UK, compared with 8,800 fewer cases if everyone stopped eating processed or red meat.

This is for a country with a population of 60m to 70m people.

Brown meat refers to poultry's legs, it's different from red meat (beef). I'm not aware of any study that shows brown meat to be more dangerous than chicken breasts?

Humans and many other animals have been eating meat for billions of man-years (this is a software site after all), I kinda doubt "actually quite dangerous" is a fitting description. Bungee-jumping without a rope is "actually quite dangerous", for example.

they might be talking about antibiotics in the meat, which wasnt a problem until recently

Funny. In Germany if you say "antibiotics in meat" most people will think of poultry.

No they haven't. Red meat is not dangerous. Cooking red meat the way Americans tend to (disgustingly fried everything) is, but disgustingly frying anything is bad for you.

People fry red meat ?!

I have spent much time in the US, but I think I have never seen that...in restaurants at least. And I'm kinda glad I didn't.

I've lived in Japan for my entire adult life and we cook meats either in a frypan or a wok. Do you roast it in the oven or something?

They're referring to deep frying, rather than pan frying.

Slightly OT, but Is this a language thing? In the UK frying in this context means in a flat frying pan with a very small coating of oil. This is perfectly normal for a steak. Deep fat frying, where the meat would be submerged in hot oil would be out of the ordinary.

Have you ever had a hamburger...?

It's not as common, but yes. One example found in Southern cuisine / Texas / etc. is called either chicken fried steak or country fried steak. Although often pan fried, some restaurants deep fry them.

With mashed potatoes and white gravy[1], it's delicious, too.

[1] People who put brown gravy on chicken fried steak are heretics who should be deep fried themselves.

Fried is not the primary manner in which Americans consume red meat, I like how you got the anti-American attack in there though.

Red meat is, according to WHO, a probable carcinogen, although the increased risk is quite small.

Literally everything is a fucking carcinogen.

> Literally everything is a fucking carcinogen

> > Red meat is not dangerous.

Pick one.

Are you trying to imply you were using the meaningless definition of 'dangerous', and not the "notable risk" definition?

Because "might be a carcinogen along with basically every substance" only proves the former.

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