eCancerAwareness.com » meat http://ecancerawareness.com Raising awareness about cancer and healthy living Mon, 03 May 2010 21:03:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Warning Labels for Hot Dogs? http://ecancerawareness.com/healthy-living/warning-labels-for-hot-dogs/ http://ecancerawareness.com/healthy-living/warning-labels-for-hot-dogs/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:44:11 +0000 Admin http://ecancerawareness.com/?p=150 The nonprofit Cancer Project, a vegan advocacy group, has filed a law suit in New Jersey to try and force companies to add cancer warning labels to processed foods like hot dogs and sausages.

An American Institute for Cancer Research report cited in the lawsuit notes that one 50-gram serving of processed meat — about the amount in one hot dog — consumed daily increases the risk of colorectal cancer 21% on average. Colorectal cancer kills about 50,000 Americans annually.

But a 2004 analysis by Harvard University researchers of pooled data from 14 studies in North America and Europe did not find a similar link between various red and processed meats and cancer. But they did find that higher consumption of poultry and fish may be associated with a lower risk of colorectal cancer.

While I’m not a fan of processed meats myself, I did get a kick out of this quote: “Vegans complaining about hot dogs is like the Amish complaining about gas prices,” said Susan Thatcher of Irvine.

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