Omnivore order...

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Well what a surprise...not. "Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of shoddy research"...[LINK] both parts of that title deserve looking at, the shoddy research becoming more and more of a problem in every field of science. 

 "KEY TAKEAWAYS" 

• Studies have been linking red meat consumption to health problems like heart disease, stroke, and cancer for years, but these invariably suffer from methodological limitations. 
• In an unprecedented effort, health scientists at the University of Washington scrutinized decades of research on red meat consumption and its links to various health outcomes, introducing a new way to assess health risks in the process. 
• They only found weak evidence that unprocessed red meat consumption is linked to colorectal cancer, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes, and ischemic heart disease, and no link at all between eating red meat and stroke."

More HERE with both sides of the argument ("Red meat causes heart disease. Except when it doesn’t?" link pre-pandemic) from the same Big Think.

More here, very good 'both-sided' article and comments: No Chris (Carmichael, Founder & Head Coach of CTS) we won't: Will We Ever Stop Arguing About Red Meat? [LINK]

Ows opines: eat what you fucking like, just don't overdo it, and do some exercise (walk). 

Omnivore order...

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Well what a surprise...not. "Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of shoddy research"...[LINK] both parts of that title deserve looking at, the shoddy research becoming more and more of a problem in every field of science. 

 "KEY TAKEAWAYS" 

• Studies have been linking red meat consumption to health problems like heart disease, stroke, and cancer for years, but these invariably suffer from methodological limitations. 
• In an unprecedented effort, health scientists at the University of Washington scrutinized decades of research on red meat consumption and its links to various health outcomes, introducing a new way to assess health risks in the process. 
• They only found weak evidence that unprocessed red meat consumption is linked to colorectal cancer, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes, and ischemic heart disease, and no link at all between eating red meat and stroke."

More HERE with both sides of the argument ("Red meat causes heart disease. Except when it doesn’t?" link pre-pandemic) from the same Big Think.

More here, very good 'both-sided' article and comments: No Chris (Carmichael, Founder & Head Coach of CTS) we won't: Will We Ever Stop Arguing About Red Meat? [LINK]

Ows opines: eat what you fucking like, just don't overdo it, and do some exercise (walk). 

Obvious omerta...

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Harrow Road, London, 1953 Photo: Press Association

Is a human life worth more than horse meat? Clearly not. What everyone has been saying all week: Peter Oborne asks "How to explain, then, the contrast between the recent, obsessive interest in horse meat and the near omertà surrounding Stafford?" You know...the people, the ones that politicians are elected to serve (pah!): we've been asking "Why the silence, why the omission, why the cover-up"? Horse meat, horse meat...hey, look over there another horse meat story, you'll Findus in the freezer, it's nothing new 'this sordid trade'! Irony of ironies, Staffordshire County Council has been among those shouting first and loudest (plus Labour twats of course).

"What we have here, I believe, is a conspiracy of silence, just as we had a conspiracy of silence over phone hacking and over MPs’ expenses. None of the mainstream parties want to admit the blindingly obvious fact that there is something very wrong with the NHS, as Stafford demonstrates in the most tragic and horrifying way."

One shining light - on the horse meat side at least - is Owen Paterson; as Christopher Booker writes, [hat-tip EU Referendum] "What Mr Paterson recognised from the start, unlike any other politician in Britain, was that the root of the problem lay in what had followed when, a decade ago, the EU took over all “competence” to make food law from national governments." Good, this puts the blame firmly where it belongs: Labour and the EU. Now, what about all those dead? BBC are you going to tell us? As there's going to be no blame, no scapegoats, no prosecutions, no fines, no sackings no press-pillorying over all those NHS deaths surely we can at least get a good tarring and feathering over the horse-meat hoohah? Start with Miliband minor and Ms. aghh Creagh as they seem so out of touch with what has happened and why.

Obvious omerta...

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Harrow Road, London, 1953 Photo: Press Association

Is a human life worth more than horse meat? Clearly not. What everyone has been saying all week: Peter Oborne asks "How to explain, then, the contrast between the recent, obsessive interest in horse meat and the near omertà surrounding Stafford?" You know...the people, the ones that politicians are elected to serve (pah!): we've been asking "Why the silence, why the omission, why the cover-up"? Horse meat, horse meat...hey, look over there another horse meat story, you'll Findus in the freezer, it's nothing new 'this sordid trade'! Irony of ironies, Staffordshire County Council has been among those shouting first and loudest (plus Labour twats of course).

"What we have here, I believe, is a conspiracy of silence, just as we had a conspiracy of silence over phone hacking and over MPs’ expenses. None of the mainstream parties want to admit the blindingly obvious fact that there is something very wrong with the NHS, as Stafford demonstrates in the most tragic and horrifying way."

One shining light - on the horse meat side at least - is Owen Paterson; as Christopher Booker writes, [hat-tip EU Referendum] "What Mr Paterson recognised from the start, unlike any other politician in Britain, was that the root of the problem lay in what had followed when, a decade ago, the EU took over all “competence” to make food law from national governments." Good, this puts the blame firmly where it belongs: Labour and the EU. Now, what about all those dead? BBC are you going to tell us? As there's going to be no blame, no scapegoats, no prosecutions, no fines, no sackings no press-pillorying over all those NHS deaths surely we can at least get a good tarring and feathering over the horse-meat hoohah? Start with Miliband minor and Ms. aghh Creagh as they seem so out of touch with what has happened and why.

Orange offal...

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Meatgate trundles on and Dutch meat companies will be quaking in their shoes this weekend as 'Food standards officials in Ireland have asked their Dutch counterparts to investigate 'several companies' in connection with the [horse meat in beef-burger] scandal'. The guilty companies that supplied the extra ingredient as filler are thought to be from The Netherlands. They'll be all-a-shiver at the fear of the maximum €1,050 fine that could await them [DT] . Tesco have said they will get to the bottom of the scandal but I doubt that because the bottom (or rump) is worth a whole lot more than the body parts that will be making up the burger-filler (see what I did there?). The fact that this has probably been going on for years just makes the comments by stupid wankers (final part of video from 55 seconds) at  trying to blame Coalition cuts as just more fuckwittery. That said, the scandal has moved on to more worrying aspects that is sure to upset many more people than the cross-species meat contamination; aspects that can and should be controlled by us. Update: Tops marks to Anna - not for the oddly disturbing shortened-horse video-clip at the top of her post, nor for the very sensible (but unspoken) question of  whether anybody was inquiring what the other 71% in Tesco’s Value Added Burgers was - but for the wonderful "It’s not just Tesco’s either, there’s My Lidl Pony…"

Orange offal...

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Meatgate trundles on and Dutch meat companies will be quaking in their shoes this weekend as 'Food standards officials in Ireland have asked their Dutch counterparts to investigate 'several companies' in connection with the [horse meat in beef-burger] scandal'. The guilty companies that supplied the extra ingredient as filler are thought to be from The Netherlands. They'll be all-a-shiver at the fear of the maximum €1,050 fine that could await them [DT] . Tesco have said they will get to the bottom of the scandal but I doubt that because the bottom (or rump) is worth a whole lot more than the body parts that will be making up the burger-filler (see what I did there?). The fact that this has probably been going on for years just makes the comments by stupid wankers (final part of video from 55 seconds) at  trying to blame Coalition cuts as just more fuckwittery. That said, the scandal has moved on to more worrying aspects that is sure to upset many more people than the cross-species meat contamination; aspects that can and should be controlled by us. Update: Tops marks to Anna - not for the oddly disturbing shortened-horse video-clip at the top of her post, nor for the very sensible (but unspoken) question of  whether anybody was inquiring what the other 71% in Tesco’s Value Added Burgers was - but for the wonderful "It’s not just Tesco’s either, there’s My Lidl Pony…"

Obesity objection...

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"The best thing that coffin dodgers can do for their health and to help animals is to go vegan" said Yvonne Taylor of PETA. Apparently their brand-new billboard (image left) was revealed in Gloucester today to coincide with the official opening of a new mortuary to accommodate the bodies of people who weigh up to 50 stone...don't they all or are there specific fatty facilities? The Beeb report that Gloucestershire County Council said its mortuary was one of many in the country that could take bodies of this size.



P.S. Do vegans not eat pastry? (Update 10 minutes later: Mighty O leads me to guess they do!)



 

Obesity objection...

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"The best thing that coffin dodgers can do for their health and to help animals is to go vegan" said Yvonne Taylor of PETA. Apparently their brand-new billboard (image left) was revealed in Gloucester today to coincide with the official opening of a new mortuary to accommodate the bodies of people who weigh up to 50 stone...don't they all or are there specific fatty facilities? The Beeb report that Gloucestershire County Council said its mortuary was one of many in the country that could take bodies of this size.

P.S. Do vegans not eat pastry? (Update 10 minutes later: Mighty O leads me to guess they do!)