[ RadSafe ] LNT and the WHO guidance on red meat

[Joseph Preisig]

Radsafe/Joe Shonka:

      Cows or beef cattle eat grass or other feed.  Radon products or K-40
(or other chemicals or pesticides) are in the grass...
Cow/beef cattle ingest the grass.  Humans eat the red meat.  Cancer of the
colon results???  Pathway city, I guess.

      Are the Veggie people conducting these research studies???

      Joe Preisig







On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:27 AM, <jjshonka at shonka.com> wrote:

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> Given the recent RadSafe posts on LNT for radiation, I have a question.
> The recent WHO caution on consumption of processed or red meat has resulted
> in projections of cancer deaths caused by bacon.  One site asserts that
> eating 9 slices of bacon is equivalent to the cancer risk of smoking one
> cigarette.  Does this calculation rest on an assumption of linearity and no
> threshold as well?  Are the objections raised against LNT for radiation
> applicable to this form of carcinogen?
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> http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3013/whats-worse-for-your-health-bacon-or-cigarettes
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