A good friend of mine is a field rep for a livestock magazine, he received the following email from http://www.meatout.org/, click on the picture to read it:
Groups like these, have no shame. They will try and spread their lies and myths about meat to any and everyone the possibly can. This is the type of attacks that American agriculture is battling day in and day out, and the war is nowhere near over!
A few facts to clear up the misconceptions mentioned in the above email:
- No food has ever been shown to cause cancer, especially red meat.
- Proteins like lean beef, have been shown to help prevent type 2 diabetes
- A Vegetarian/Vegan diet does not provide the necessary amount of minerals and vitamins needed to sustain a healthy lifestyle
- E. coli is found on all types of food because it lives in the ground, it does not just affect meat products
- Claims by scientists that meat production is responsible for more than half of man-made greenhouse gas emissions, is unfounded and thoroughly discredited by major universities and other scientists around the world
It's a shame that a few misguided people can try and sway the American consumer with false rhetoric, that is why farmers and ranchers and those that work in agriculture must share their knowledge with the public, so that the truth will be known.
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