Technically red meat is Class 2A, meaning it’s “probably carcinogenic” to humans. Thus, you can’t quite yet (especially with animal agriculture being such a powerful lobby) place a label saying it definitely is. However, basically all the evidence at this point shows that eating red meat and especially processed red meat increases your risk of e.g. colorectal cancer.
However, processed meat is a Class 1 carcinogen and thus definitely should have a label, but good fucking luck getting any group of politicians to sign off on that in the face of – again – the animal ag lobby. Unlike big oil, even the most tepid stances against animal ag often aren’t broadly publicly accepted.
Shouldn’t regular meat have the cancer warning?
Technically red meat is Class 2A, meaning it’s “probably carcinogenic” to humans. Thus, you can’t quite yet (especially with animal agriculture being such a powerful lobby) place a label saying it definitely is. However, basically all the evidence at this point shows that eating red meat and especially processed red meat increases your risk of e.g. colorectal cancer.
However, processed meat is a Class 1 carcinogen and thus definitely should have a label, but good fucking luck getting any group of politicians to sign off on that in the face of – again – the animal ag lobby. Unlike big oil, even the most tepid stances against animal ag often aren’t broadly publicly accepted.