Jogeephus
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At this year's International Production and Processing Expo, Mark Dopp who is vice president of regulatory affairs with the North American Meat Institute delivered some bad news. The United Nations' World Health Organization's International Agency on Cancer will be publishing a paper sometime this summer saying that ALL red meat is possibly carcinogenic and ALL processed meat IS carcinogenic. Also the World Cancer Research Fund is also set to publish something similar later this year.
Not to miss an opportunity, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, is currently petitioning the USDA to put warning labels on red meat similar to those found on tobacco products. The CSPI is a lobby group founded and run by Michael Jacobson who you may know better as a sitting chairman on the National Council of the Great American Meatout, the annual event sponsored by Farm Animal Rights Movement, that encourages people to "kick the meat habit" for a day. Jacobson has probably influenced you already by his coining the terms "junk food" and "empty calorie" so he knows how to get his message out. He is a strong advocate for higher taxes on unhealthy foods, greater use of warning labels on food and beverage packaging, restrictions on advertising and selling junk foods and lawsuits against food producers such as ourselves for producing red meat which everyone in the world will soon know causes cancer.
This just may be a windfall for the folks at the United Nations who have long said the production of red meat is wasteful and because the grain use in meat production would better be use to feed all those starving children in Africa. Don't mean to be political but I see no way around it when the politics are fixing to be at our doorstep this summer. It will be interesting to see what happens and how this will effect us. Just wanted to share this because I thought it important.
Not to miss an opportunity, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, is currently petitioning the USDA to put warning labels on red meat similar to those found on tobacco products. The CSPI is a lobby group founded and run by Michael Jacobson who you may know better as a sitting chairman on the National Council of the Great American Meatout, the annual event sponsored by Farm Animal Rights Movement, that encourages people to "kick the meat habit" for a day. Jacobson has probably influenced you already by his coining the terms "junk food" and "empty calorie" so he knows how to get his message out. He is a strong advocate for higher taxes on unhealthy foods, greater use of warning labels on food and beverage packaging, restrictions on advertising and selling junk foods and lawsuits against food producers such as ourselves for producing red meat which everyone in the world will soon know causes cancer.
This just may be a windfall for the folks at the United Nations who have long said the production of red meat is wasteful and because the grain use in meat production would better be use to feed all those starving children in Africa. Don't mean to be political but I see no way around it when the politics are fixing to be at our doorstep this summer. It will be interesting to see what happens and how this will effect us. Just wanted to share this because I thought it important.
