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> But learning that consumption of processed meat causes an additional 34,000 worldwide cancer deaths a year is much more chilling. According to Cancer Research UK, if no one ate processed or red meat in Britain, there would be 8,800 fewer cases of cancer. (That is four times the number of people killed annually on Britain’s roads.)

Is this trying to say that 23% of worldwide cancer deaths due to meat eating are in the UK?

Or is this just shitty writing?

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I can't speak to what they actually mean, but not all of the 8800 British cancer cases will die from cancer, so I guess you missed that difference in the sentence.

Right, the most sympathetic reading of that paragraph I can think of is that they're intentionally grouping numbers of cases and comparing them to numbers of deaths to be intentionally misleading about the scale of the problem.

It reads like they're just vomiting statistics to try to scare the reader.

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