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DESCRIPTION: A higher rate of cancer deaths among those that handle and process meat is attributed to infection with viruses and chronic exposure to animal proteins.
See the last video Poultry Exposure Tied to Liver and Pancreatic Cancer ( for the data on poultry exposure and cancer deaths.
Though exposure to farm animals growing up might be associated with cancer risk, what about growing up with dogs and cats? See Pets & Human Lymphoma ( and Are Cats or Dogs More Protective for Children’s Health? ( You still probably shouldn’t eat them, though (see Foodborne Rabies,
For more on foodborne illnesses one can contract from fellow animals, see, for example:
• Yersinia in Pork (
• Poultry and Paralysis (
• MRSA in U.S. Retail Meat (
• Amnesic Seafood Poisoning (
• Avoiding Chicken to Avoid Bladder Infections (
• Food Poisoning Bacteria Cross-Contamination (
• Salmonella in Chicken & Turkey: Deadly but Not Illegal (
Probably the strangest example of this whole concept is the Neu5Gc story. A 7-part video series definitely worth checking out:
1. Cancer as an Autoimmune Disease (
2. Clonal Selection Theory of Immunity (
3. Clonal Deletion Theory of Immunity (
4. The Inflammatory Meat Molecule Neu5Gc (
5. How Tumors Use Meat to Grow: Xeno-Autoantibodies (
6. Nonhuman Molecules Lining Our Arteries (
7. Meat May Exceed Daily Allowance of Irony (
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